Well, this was supposed to go on last night, but my computer chord shorted and I couldn't get it on, so I am officially one day behind on the blog, even though I actually wrote it write on schedule in my journal. So I'll just copy it over to blog and hopefully, barring other technological catastrophies, I will blog again tonight and be completely caught up. Hoping.......
Sunday, June 16, 2013
C-word: Chosen
Chosen. Hmmmm....An adjective, descriptive. It reminds me of that old Eddie Murphy movie back in the late 1980s, early 1990's called The Chosen . There was also an awesome book by Chaim Potock (sp) about Hessidic and Orthodox Jews called The Chosen. The movie had to do with a plot around an old Tibetan prophecy, if I remember correctly. The book had to do with Jewish birthright. I actually believe in both prophecy and birthright. I believe they go hand in hand.
I could say "I have chosen' to do this or that, but that would be more of a 'go and do' thing, a verb rather than adjective. However, were I to say "I am chosen", "you are chosen", we're now back in descriptive/adjective mode.
Jim is chosen, for I chose him. My children choose team members to be on their baseball or croquet games. The team members are therefore "chosen".
Chosen is a derivitive of "choice", in context for these purposes to be used as an adjective; i.e. "I am choice",.
What have I been chosen for? I've been chosen as a friend, as a wife. I've been chosen to play the piano at church. I've been chosen to do other things, I'm sure, but I can't think of anymore at the moment. :) I'll have to think on this....
Tomorrow's C-word: Confident
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