This is the 14th time Truth Is... has featured a word from John Koenig's The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, and it's the first time I've chosen a word - not because it resonates deeply within me - but precisely because I do not experience the "obscure sorrow" it talks about.
What word, you say?
redesis (Middle English rede, advice + pedesis, the random motion of particles. Pronounced "ruh-dee-sis.") n. a feeling of queasiness while offering someone advice, knowing they might well face a totally different set of constraints and capabilities, any of which might propel them to a wildly different outcome - which makes you wonder if all of your hard-earned wisdom is fundamentally nontransferable, like handing someone a gift card in your name that probably expired years ago.
There's another word that figures into why I've never experienced redesis ... at least when considering the advice and information I dispense in these here parts.
What word, you say?
Whosoever.
As in the King James Version of John 3:16...
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
No waffling around with thoughts of "My truth may not be your truth" or "You've got your opinion and I've got mine."
No.
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Truth is...No matter what "set of constraints and capabilities" you're living with, Yahweh offers everlasting life to you. No redesis about it.
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