Why write? Psalm 102 says that we write for the unborn: “This will be written for the generation to come” (v. 18). Recording Yahweh’s compassion to Zion, His deliverance of His people, His gracious responses to their prayers leaves a fixed record for those who come after. Writing aims to fix the past and present for the sake of the future. Writing is eschatological.
And writing is liturgical: “This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.” We fix what we know in a written text so that the unborn will have cause to worship. Every written text is a prayer book, a missal and a breviary for the future.
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