For those who are interested, my soundtrack for writing this blog was 1000 Oceans (by Tori Amos), sung by the PS22 Kids.
Love it.
This has been around for some time, but I hadn’t used it until this morning. Wordle is a website that takes any text you enter (copypaste), and generates a word cloud from it.
When studying a text, one of the things you do is observation. You sit, observe the text, and note the salient points. Normally this would take a while; Wordle’s great help. To grab an example, I’ll use a book I’m loving right now: Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. I cranked it through Wordle, and here’s the result:
Word Cloud of Ephesians
Well, it’s the Bible, so the most used words aren’t surprising. Here’s what I see:
‘One’
We have one leader, one God, one Father. We all have the same hope, the same faith.
Why divide things?
’May’
Desiring an outcome. Looking forward to see something good coming. Wishing that they might see, and know, and be encouraged.
What a great way to pull the themes out of the passage! It resonated with what I’d picked up when reading it.