I have a comma, problem I am addicted to semicolons; not to mention ellipses…and dashes – I also put two spaces after each sentence (and don’t forget parenthetic comments).
But this is how I think. My economy is “One Sentence = One Thought”. I can’t let go of the sentence before I let go of the thought. Commas, semicolons, ellipses, dashes and parentheses are all means of hanging onto the sentence until I’m done with the thought; two spaces at the end of the sentence are a staccato statement “Take! That!”.
My love for the sentence is second only to my love for words and barely precedes my devotion to paragraphs. These three are the framework of thoughts; chapters are the containers of concepts and books the repository of ideas…which are to us as we are to God.
We are His books; and in our lives he assembles our chapters of growth from His words, sentences and paragraphs of Love.
