Since reading yesterday's lovely blog post by Joyce Voysey, I've re-visited the Greek word "makarios" which has been translated in the Sermon on the Mount (King James Version of the Bible) as "blessed".
Here are two meanings of the word makarios:
- fully satisfied
- joy independent of all chances
I like that meanings of words (ideas) can unfold to us.
And I like the example of unfoldment shared at a recent online testimony meeting of The Mother Church.
A Sunday school teacher gave each student a sheet of newsprint and asked them to fold the page over as many times as they could until it was very small with just a few lines of print being visible.
The students were then asked to read the story on that page. Of course, they could read very little.
The teacher then instructed them to unfold the page just a little. Now they could read a bit more of the story.
Little by little, more of the story was revealed as the number of folds was reduced, until finally the page lay completely open and the whole story was plainly visible.
Julie Swannell
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