Day Seventeen: Awe

Word of the Day: Awe

Image of the Day: Kozy Koala, Izzy bear and Reuben the very pink pig!

Token of the Day: a second set of 3 "Fantasy Kingdom Collection Pony Tails"

Gail writes: Perhaps this word engenders a beautiful mountain scene or the sea or some other natural WONDER or perhaps it is these three guys and the ability to hear what they say and accept what they offer

Such a tiny word, such a complex concept! Here are some of my musings:

Awe

in awe

awesome

awful?

"I am wondrously and awesomely made" Psalm 139

awesome = remarkable, outstanding

Wow!, Fantastic! particularly US and Aussie slang

in awe - amazed, speechless, eyes wide, mouth open

overawed = to control or subdue by inspiring awe.

awestricken, awestruck, awed - having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread; "stood in awed silence before the shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck wonder"

Loch Awe - anglicised from the Gaelic Loch Obha a beautiful place, known as the Jewel of Argyll. Certainly a place where one's breath is taken away.

The word awe comes from Old English eġe, influenced during Middle English by forms from the Old Norse cognate agi.

in awe

i freeze

knees shattered on frosty ground.

hands shredded by shards of ice

face transfixed, paralysed

eyes pouring icicles

which break off

and continue to pierce

hands spread wide and bleeding.

the awful sight

too much for one mere mortal to bear

dread and wonder in equal measure

sublime beauty

shuddering power

the might to move mountains

the reverence to cherish snowdrops

God lays out her mantle and sighs.