Funny, well not always ha!ha! funny, but funny, strange funny, how some words change meaning when taken out of context, or they are used in another context or used without a context, whatsoever. Sometimes, it's funny ha!ha! I heard these words spoken by a newscaster just the other evening, "Her only relief is to stay away from her electric meter." Yeah, that's what she said. Don't you wonder what that's all about, but I'm not telling you. However, I wanted to remember the line so much that I jumped out of my recliner, ran to the erasable calender on the refrigerator and wrote it down. Accuracy in reporting.
Here is an example of words that change meaning when the context is muddled due to too many skipped grammar classes. Oh, the value of the period.
I have always preferred my wi fi without bacon. It gets the keys greasy.
There's another short piece I read once from the Gospel of Thomas that was offered without context. The whole gospel is pretty much a collection of sayings from Jesus written more like a shopping list. Thomas did not want to forget exactly what Jesus said. The one I'm sharing is numbered 37, but I'm not sure just what that means. The first time I read it, it didn't reach me then, but where I am at this moment right now is different, and today, it makes sense to me. Here it is:
His disciples asked him: When will you appear to us? When will we see you? Jesus replied: When you strip naked without shame and trample your clothing underfoot just as little children do, then you will look at the son of the living one without being afraid.
Thank you, Thomas, for writing this some place more permanent than an erasable calendar.
Peace. Love, Linda
Here is an example of words that change meaning when the context is muddled due to too many skipped grammar classes. Oh, the value of the period.
I have always preferred my wi fi without bacon. It gets the keys greasy.
There's another short piece I read once from the Gospel of Thomas that was offered without context. The whole gospel is pretty much a collection of sayings from Jesus written more like a shopping list. Thomas did not want to forget exactly what Jesus said. The one I'm sharing is numbered 37, but I'm not sure just what that means. The first time I read it, it didn't reach me then, but where I am at this moment right now is different, and today, it makes sense to me. Here it is:
His disciples asked him: When will you appear to us? When will we see you? Jesus replied: When you strip naked without shame and trample your clothing underfoot just as little children do, then you will look at the son of the living one without being afraid.
Thank you, Thomas, for writing this some place more permanent than an erasable calendar.
Peace. Love, Linda
2 comments:
Since you now understand what Thomas was saying, would you please share it with us?
I think the metaphor of the clothes we dress ourselves in talks of the many faces of humanity we put on to live our everyday lives. We then think that we are the "clothes we wear." The reality is, the clothes mean nothing, and they are what keep us from truly connecting with God. "Perfect love casts out fear." When we look our true selves, unclothed, as God does, we have no reason to turn our face from his presence. Remember Eve when they were caught? Then, they put on clothes...
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