Comments on: What’s in a Word? Actually Quite a Lot

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 19:49:52 +0000

My 7 year old son who has some difficulty regulating his behaviour and emotions likes to sing Casting Crowns, “Just be held.” Except he sings “Just behave!” On the one hand, my husband and I think it’s hilarious! But I also feel a bit sad for him that he’s singing words that he hears said to him a lot but actually “just behaving” is far from simple for him.

By: Lynn D. Morrissey

Lynn D. Morrissey — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 22:58:57 +0000

In reply to LisaNotes.

Oh, I’d love to know about those sibling lyric battles someday! I’ll bet they were interesting. And I’m always fighting (in the best sense of the word) our worshp pastor when he changed hymn lyrics. Drives me nuts, especially when I’ve memorized the lyrics from my youth!

And, Lisa, you’re so right: There’s always room for clearer understanding as we mature. And I’ve found too that humility plays a huge part. We need to be humble enough to learn that we don’t know it all and may have learned it wrong!

Grace, grace, grace all around.

Happy 4th. Love how YOU make me think!
xo
Lynn

By: Linda Stoll

Linda Stoll — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 22:14:21 +0000

for sure, we have an assortment of filters that we pull out subconsciously {or not!} depending on the occasion, the person, the stress we’re under.

By: LisaNotes

LisaNotes — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 21:27:33 +0000

In reply to Lynn D. Morrissey.

It’s always funny to hear how people misinterpret song lyrics. 🙂 My sister and I had quite a few arguments in childhood over what the lyrics really were (back in the day when you couldn’t google them!).

What did I mean? Well, actually ALL those things you mentioned. You can interpret it however it helps you. I’ve definitely changed the way I hear certain scriptures from when I was a child too (thankfully). There’s always room for clearer understanding as we mature. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Lynn. They always help me clarify my own!

By: Lynn D. Morrissey

Lynn D. Morrissey — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 19:01:55 +0000

Cumbrella was what our daughter thought an umbrella was! I still use it! 🙂 Love that word. I remember as a child that I thought I heard the line in the carol, “Silent Night,” this way: “Round young virgin, Mother and Child.” That wasn’t too far from the truth, though. How we hear God’s words, however, is different. We want to know truth. I wasn’t sure what you had meant on your comment here about God’s words: “He tells us something, then waits to see how we interpret his words. We probably get it wrong the first several times with him too.” I wasn’t sure if you meant we hear Him, and we (down deep) believe it is a directive from Him, but then second-guess what He’d said (if we don’t want to obey); or, I wondered, if you had meant we may actually hear what He says, but when we listen through a different headset, so to speak, we can a whole different perspective on interpretation…. or another way to say it, is that we can read the same Scripture passages our whole life, and then a teacher, pastor, or author presents a different interpretation we’d not considered, and we reread the same words, but with new eyes, and they take on a whole new meaning. This happened to me, e.g., on the subject of election and the Reformed view of faith. Suddenly, as I read God’s Word, I saw evidence of this viewpoint throughout Scripture, which had always been present before, but for which I’d not had eyes to see. Anyway, I didn’t know exactly what you had meant from your *wording.* Ha! 🙂 But words are extremely important, both in how we use them and in how we hear them. In fact, if the two entities differ, often we can never come to understanding each other. Good communication will ensure people are on the same page, so to speak. 🙂 I do love words, and I love knowing their meanings and etymologies as well; but that, dear Lisa, is a whole other kettle of fish!

Happy 4th!
xo
Lynn

By: Jean Wise

Jean Wise — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:53:13 +0000

wow this line struck me: “I’m guessing God does this with us a lot. He tells us something, then waits to see how we interpret his words. We probably get it wrong the first several times with him too.”

What a good reminder.

By: Debbie Wilson

Debbie Wilson — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:17:43 +0000

Lisa, I love how you applied our misunderstanding to how we fail to accurately translate what God says! I’m going to ponder that and ask Him where I’ve done that.

By: Michele Morin

Michele Morin — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 11:30:11 +0000

We constantly play around with words here, too, but it’s no fun when words float between people without translation.

By: Barb Hegreberg

Barb Hegreberg — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 10:52:15 +0000

This reminds me so much of some of the words we use in our family.

Words like:
“naquin” – napkin
“combinetion” – combination
“iggernut” – ignorant
“ruru” – rural

Thanks for FEATURING me this week.