Fascination.

I have found the most amusing word in the English dictionary. Now I have to figure out how to write this blog with minimal puns (Me+puns = :( )

For those of you that know me, you know I love to talk. It takes a lot for me to shut up. I just love words. My favorites are intense and epic. I was thinking of adding fascination to the list, but, well, you'll see why a little down the page. :)

So how did I get this rather random word? I was fooling around on the piano almost a week ago and there is this floozy piece from one of my old piano books called Fascination. It's rather...uh... the best word is whimsical. So in other words, it goes up and down a scale and ends up going in a small circle and there is almost no point to playing the song.

Anyway, I looked up the meaning of fascinate, since fascination just says see fascinate (Don't you just LOVE dictionaries???!) This particular definition is from Dictionary.com:

1. to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
2. to arouse the interest or curiosity of; allure.
3. to transfix or deprive of the power of resistance, as through terror: The sight of the snake fascinated the rabbit.
4. Obsolete. to bewitch.
5. Obsolete. to cast under a spell by a look.

So really, I found that it connects to my weird attraction to things. Like books and music to name a few. Oh and good Villains. (another to be continued subject).

Anyways as I looked into this word more, I found to have some good ways to interpret it and some not-so-nice ways. For example. God is fascinating. Or He should be. I mean, think about it, if you're like me, (and most of you are) when you try to figure out how God works, it just makes your head hurt. (for those of you that don't believe, try to count to billion, then do that a million times. It makes your head spin.) Sometimes when you look back you can see how He's worked in you life and sometimes you have no idea why He did -insert situation here-. There are other ways, but I'll let you all discover for yourselves.

Now the not-so-nice. Sin. How many of you are fascinated by something because it looks fun. I looked at the definition of fascinate and my heart sank, because all I could see were some of my own temptations. How many times have we done something we know is wrong because it spikes our curiosity, or because it attracts us. I could have written the whole blog just on that. O my life! It's not very encouraging!

So here is the very good news in all of this mess: Psalms 139: 13-16 (NIV)

"For you created me in my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother womb. I praise you , for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, you works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

Translated: God is fascinated with us. (Another Mind-blowing subject!) He knit us together piece by piece, carefully and with love and patience, knowing full well that we would betray him, and disown him, and make mistakes. So what did he do? He gave us a hope and a future. (which is part of Jeremiah 29:11, by the way).

Just some things to think about.

Katydid out.