God’s Dictionary: Danger

By on April 7, 2009 in Spirit

Danger

 

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dominus = master

 

          Danger is, I think, as much an illusion as security. Whilst there are people who truly do live in danger, we in the West are addicted to adrenaline so we name things dangerous which are not just to feel alive.

 

A lot of the time, danger is in the eye of the beholder. Being late for a party or even for work isn’t really dangerous. Being followed by a menacing presence is a dark alley is.

 

The Latin roots of the word tell us what real danger is. It’s when someone is a master over us when it is inappropriate. That’s what creates danger. No one, save Deity, really has a right to be master over us except our very own selves.  

 

In the Hebrew Bible, humanity is given dominion over itself. The only place mastery is appropriate is within each individual. Ask: How can I be a master of myself today?

 

Infinition: If I have given myself over to the mastery of another, today I find a way to be master only over myself. What a relief.

 


Find more Divine Definitons at Dr. Corso’s blog, God’s Dictionary

 

 

 

 

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