True Stories - Words











I share these words with my friend Florence. She was a writer, so she had a love of words. Therefore the sharing of my words inspired her to start writing poetry again. This was a very exciting time.  After summer 2000 the words stop. I reflect on this; was it just for that time? A season, when God needed to build and encourage me as a new Christian? I don't know but my dictionary gathers dust again.   Until one night in January this year (2004), when I wake to the word 'aquarial'. Is this a word? Even as I look it up I am thinking this is just my imagination. But no, there it is. aquarial - one of a sect of early Christians who used water instead of wine in the Lords supper.  I am amazed! I ponder on this for a while. Did I need to know that? Or was God saying, "I'm still here." That I did need to know.   On February 16, I get a phone call; it's sad news - Florence has died. I spend the day thinking of her and how much she meant, not just to me but so many people, and I remember the times when we would sit and chat over a cup of tea. (She had Parkinson's disease; she was very frail.) It was on one of these occasions, I remember her saying, "When the time comes I hope I will just leap into Heaven." Now she has gone.

That night, I wake to the word 'transient'. In the morning I think, "Word. What was it? . . . trans . . . trans . . 'transilient'."  Somehow 'transient' has become 'transilient'. (I look it up) transient - Passing by or away with time. Passing from one thing or person to another.  Then underneath is the word 'transilient'. (Now I'm shaking). It says . . .  transilient - Leap across. Leaping or passing from one thing or condition to another.  What can I add to that?

I am a person of very few words. I seem to get by with the words I know. But since I became a Christian, God has added to my vocabulary somewhat. Back in 1998 I am a new Christian. On November 27 I wake up in the night for no apparent reason with the word 'ubiquity' in my head. I don't know what it means but in the morning it hasn't gone away so I decide to look it up. My two volume Oxford dictionary has sat on the shelf for years without being touched but I blow the dust off and open it at 'U'.  ubiquity - the capacity of being everywhere at the same time. As an attribute of God. The omnipresence of Christ or of His body, as maintained by the ubiquitarians.  This happens quite often over the next two or three years and always follows the same pattern. I wake in the night to a word that is completely unknown to me, and have to look it up in the dictionary in the morning. Over time I acquire quite a collection of words. Each time the word describes one of the characteristics of God.  (I have listed the words below).

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