Do you believe in ghosts?
What’s the spirit in you?
Why does this word exist?
Strange how some words come to exist.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
I was inspired to write from a line I heard in the series “The Chosen”. The scene shows Jesus explaining the “Holy Spirit” to the high priest.
He asks him to listen. He then asks him what does he hear? His answer was the wind. Jesus asks how do you know it’s the wind? You can’t see it but you know it’s there. It’s the same thing with the spirit. You can’t see it but you know it’s there.
Spirit is just such a word. I thought of it because it is a word that describes the indescribable. Off I go on a mission to find out why this word exists?
My first search in the dictionary
ORIGIN Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin spiritus ‘breath, spirit’, from spirare ‘breathe’.
- The non physical part of a person is the seat of emotions and character; the soul: we seek harmony between body and spirit.
- The non physical part of a person is regarded as a person’s true self and as capable of surviving…
