Dearly Beloved
July 31st, 2023 by G.
Just yesterday Benjamin Franklin’s quote crossed my mind:
Experience is a dear school but fools learn by no other.
Of course he doesn’t mean ‘dear’ the way we do. Experience is not a school that people are really fond of. The older meaning of dear is “expensive.”
“Costly.” “Pricy.”
Not long after, following a prompting, I opened my patriarchal blessing. The first words read, “dearly beloved.”
“Dearly beloved” is a phrase you find a lot in the scriptures. It puts a different complexion on it when you read it as “beloved at great cost.”
Dearly, dearly has he loved.
Annie
July 31, 2023
Oh my. A new-or in this case old-meaning, can be so powerful. You have just launched one of my all-time favorite hymns into the stratosphere. Tears. And I could barely get through the 3 hymns we sang yesterday, for the tears and large lump in my throat; hymns I’ve sung many times with no such effect. Such power and light in words. Logos.
The Only True and Living Nathan
July 31, 2023
Rudyard Kipling was your patriarch?