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BigV


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LAst night while meditating I had this word POP into my head.

A men is normally how I say this word last night it was brought to me in a different way, sounds like Ah men and I said this over and over ahmen ahmen, WOW that sounds much more aribic that way, hmmmm I thought to myself why do we say this word?

So this morning I looked it up,

The word Amen (Hebrew: , Standard Amen Tiberian Amen ; Arabic: , mn ; "So be it; truly"[1]) is a declaration of affirmation[2][3] found in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.[1] Its use in Judaism dates back to its earliest texts.[4] It has been generally adopted in Christian worship as a concluding word for prayers and hymns.[3] In Islam, it is the standard ending to Dua (supplication). Common English translations of the word amen include: "Verily", "Truly", "So be it", and "Let it be".[1] It can also be used colloquially to express strong agreement[3], as in, for instance, amen to that.[5]



Amen, meaning so be it, is possibly of Hebrew origin[6][7]. The word was imported into the Greek of the early Church from the Jewish synagogue.[2][8]. From Greek, amen entered the other Western languages. According to a standard dictionary etymology, amen passed from Greek into Late Latin, and thence into English.[9]

The Hebrew word amen derives from the Hebrew verb aman, a primitive root.[10] Grammarians frequently list aman under its three consonants (mn), which are identical to those of amen .[9] This triliteral root (mn) means to be firm, confirmed, reliable, faithful, have faith, believe. Two English words that derive from this root are:

a. amen, from Hebrew amen (=truly, certainly); b. Mammon, from Aramaic mamona, probably from Mishnaic Hebrew mamôn,*mamon (=? security, deposit). probably from earlier

Both a and b derive from Hebrew aman (=to be firm).[11]

The Talmud teaches homiletically that the word Amen is an acronym for (El melekh neeman, "God, trustworthy King"),[12] the phrase recited silently by an individual before reciting the Shma.

Popular among some theosophists and adherents of esoteric Christianity is the theory that amen is a derivative of the name of the Egyptian god AmunAmen).[13][14][15] Some adherents of Eastern religions believe that amen shares roots with the Sanskrit word, aum.[16] There is no academic support for either of these views. (which is sometimes also spelled

 

 

 

An interesting history there of Amen LOL so what I see here is Hebrew word  has been imported not only into christianity but other eastern religions too,  Islam , Hinduism Jewdaism and many other religions.

 

 

The speaker adopts for his own what has already been said by another.

So when we say Amen we are accepting them as our own but coming from another source , when we finish saying the Serenity prayer we take on that prayer to be ours an affirming our commitment to some belief.


God, grant me the Serneity

To accept the things I cannot change

Courage to change what I can

Wisdom to know the difference.

Amen


This is my commitment to my recovery I MUST do these things in order to recover from a hopeless condition of self.


Just my perspective on this please feel free to share yours, thanks .


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Thats pretty neat stuff BigV. Never really gave that word much thought outside of ending prayer. Guess there's a whole new world beneath the surface.

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Ok speaking on this topic real quickly. My Pastor this morning I think sometimes him and my sponsor have secret meetings and decide both to hit me the same week with stuff I need to hear. (LOL) Thank my HP that they never have really met at all. But my sponsor and I were talking this past week about how I am starting to slowly peel the layers of the onion away and looking at me. Now my pastor he is in the other fellowship, he talked about taking the masks off and revealing who we really are. Is this not something that this addict needed to hear. I have been really struggling with the higher power about if I am a fraud now when I was in active addiction yes I was a total fraud but now I see that I am starting to become a better person little by little.

I am not a fraud the disease will allow me to think that of myself today.

Shannon an addict.

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THanks ANJ thanks Shannon for sharing that.

I too was a fraud todays Just for Today is really good about this

Standing for something
Page 305
"... we could feel time, touch reality, and recognize spiritual values long lost to many of us."
Basic Text, p.85
In our active addiction, we were prepared to compromise everything we believed in just to get our hands on more drugs. Whether we stole from our families and friends, sold ourselves, or lied to our employers, we were ignoring the values that mattered most to us. Each time we compromised another dearly held belief, another chunk of the mortar holding our characters together fell away. By the time many of us came to our first meeting, nothing was left but the ruin of our former selves.

We will locate our lost values as we carry out our first honest self-examination. But in order to rebuild our characters, we'll find it necessary to maintain those values, no matter how great the temptation to shove them aside. We will need to be honest, even when we think we could fool everyone by lying. If we ignore our values, we'll discover that the biggest fibs we've told have been the ones we've told ourselves.

We don't want to start the demolition of our spirits again after all the work we've put into their restoration. It's essential that we stand for something, or we risk falling for anything. Whatever we find important to us, we honor.

Just for Today: I stand for something. My strength is the result of living my values


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