Marti was elated yesterday to discover that God favors the comma — that we have a tendency to want to put periods where commas should be. Marti saw yesterday’s Catch as a huge affirmation for her and her writing. That’s because life for Marti is one big run-on sentence.

Undoubtedly those of you who have been regular readers of the Catch for some time have become accustomed to recognizing Marti’s writing. She loves long sentences. She loves things to go on and on and on. She jumps from one thing to another without warning. That’s because her mind is racing ten times faster than she can write and she doesn’t have the patience to take you from one thought to the next; you’re supposed to catch up to her. Read her mind. Join her at her pace. Come on folks, life is happening here, and you don’t want to miss anything!

And you say you have a hard time reading Marti’s writing? You should have seen it before you got it. I am Marti’s heavy-handed editor. I have to come at her stuff with a machete, and I have to slow her down long enough to have her tell me what she meant by such and such. (She doesn’t like to have to explain herself; I’m just supposed to get it.) This is a slow, sometimes painful process, having to go back and extract her thoughts about something she put into writing a few minutes ago. She’s well past that now.

Marti hates periods. She never wants anything to end. She has little interest in end times prophesy, and eternity is not a major motivation for her. Marti is a heaven-can-wait  kind of person. Unless, of course, you are talking about heaven as another dimension to life which we can experience right now. Like in Ephesians where it says we are seated right now with Christ in the heavenlies. She’s all over that. She thinks Christians spend much to much time on eternity. As if the song were “Sha-la-la-la-la-la live for tomorrow.” Her favorite verse is 2 Corinthians 6:2, “Behold, now is the acceptable time, behold, now is the day of salvation.”

Me, I like short, choppy sentences. I could communicate find without commas. Marti could communicate fine without periods. Let life run. On and on. Experience it. Follow it. Learn from it. Come on people, let’s go!