Of Words and Roots

I just love being in the garden and it seemed extra special today. I felt close to God, close to my “roots”. Grabbing handfuls of soil and sifting it over newly planted seeds reminded me of God’s hand taking a handful of soil and making......me!

Let's ever remember the origin of man as stated in God's Word:

 “In the sweat of the face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken:  for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
I also love studying root words and the Word!

This year we learned the root words HUM and HUMAN while studying the excellent book "English from the Roots Up". We really enjoy and highly recommend this book.

We found it interesting to consider all of the following words which include these roots:

Humus:  earth; ground

Humanities:  Studies and interests of a cultural type which enrich the spirit of mankind

Exhume:  Take out of the ground; unearth; disinter

Humble:  Lowly; unpretentious; as, an humble person, meek

Humic;  Derived from the soil; as, Humic acid

Humicubation:  Act of lying on the ground in penitence; self abasement

Humility:  The quality of lowliness; meekness

Humiliate:  To humble; to shame; to abase

Humiliation:  Feeling of shame; degradation

Human:  Belonging or relating to man

Humanify:  Make into a man

Humane:  Marked by sympathy compassion for other human beings and animals

Humanize:  Make human; render humane

Inhuman:  Lacking the qualities of a humane being

Humanity:  The quality of being human

"Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and He will lift you up"

 I find the words and their roots quite interesting! Maybe I'm a "verbophil"! (Yes, I like playing with words too!)

 Verbum (word) + philo (love) = verbophil J

I think it is a good thing to love words! After all...
"The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 
John 1:14