The world – heaven and earth, men and women, animals and birds – was made in the first place by God's Word. Prophets, arriving on the scene and finding that world in ruins, finding a world of moral rubble and spiritual disorder, take up the work of words again to rebuild what human disobedience and mistrust demolished...
To experience God's presence is to enter a far larger world of reality, one that our sensory experiences can point to but cannot describe – the realities of love and compassion, justice and faithfulness, sin and evil... and God. Mostly God. The realities that are Word-evoked are where most of the world's action takes place.1

Eugene Peterson, The Message (Introduction to the Book of Micah).