Words of Love: How miracles can happen: Understanding

Empathy: Einfühlung
understanding so intimate that the feelings, thoughts, and motives of one person are readily comprehended by another. (my primo-pastor opened me up to the real/true meaning of empathy)

Bristling with Metaphor: from "A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain"

Keren's note: My Him and I believe that Mark Twain is a master of anthropomorphizing (Anthropomorphize: to give a human face to, to bring to life, to incarnate). To me..also...Mark Twain was a real/true Chrisitan mystic and didnt even seem to know it -but he certainly recognized it in others...more on this on a later post.

Bristling with Metaphor:
[..."There's more TO a bluejay than any other creature. He has got more moods, and more different kinds of feelings than other creatures; and, mind you, whatever a bluejay feels, he can put into language. And no mere commonplace language, either, but rattling, out-and-out book-talk- and bristling with metaphor, too- just bristling! And as for command of language- why YOU never see a bluejay get stuck for a word. No man ever did. They just boil out of him! And another thing: I've noticed a good deal, and there's no bird, or cow, or anything that uses as good grammar as a bluejay. You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the NOISE which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use. Now I've never heard a jay use bad grammar but very seldom; and when they do, they are as ashamed as a human; they shut right down and leave. "You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure- but he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps; but otherwise he is just as much human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts, and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise. The sacredness of an obligation is such a thing which you can't cram into no bluejay's head" ...].

Peace and Love
Keren