Thursday, August 16, 2012

What is might?

Pronunciation: mīt
imp. 1. imp. of May.
n. 1. Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity.
What so strong,
But wanting rest, will also want of might?
- Spenser.


I don't know why I love to look in depth at the definition of a word but there is almost an art about it in my perspective.  When you think of might it conjures up many images.  Most of them visual.  The strongest man in the world.  Playing tug of war with a large group of friends.  Trying....emphasis on trying, for me anyways, to do a pull up.  But the kind of might for my life and my boys has had quite a different look to it.  Watching a Dad carry his son on his shoulders and with all your might holding back an innner cry for your own father to do the same with you.   Asking every kid on the playground if they have a Dad and thinking that your are the only one who does not have one at home.  Going from boy to Man and just wishing you had your fathers perspective on the manly things of life.  So in our family might has never been about physical strength but inner strength.  An inner strength that sometimes you just can't put words to or actually it just hurts too much just to try.  For me it has also been about spiritual strength.  I have raised 3 boys/men in a loving christian home but that does not really mean anything.  God's might above all else means the most.  His presense in our home even when looking from the outside and inside it does not look like He is there He was.  The might of faith to surpass anything visually you could see.  That amazing might of God that truly does surpass everything while we reside in this temporary place.  Living in this world is not all to life.  Living in the world striving to know with all your might about everlasting life should be all of life.  So when you think of might dig deeper....with all your might!

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