Tuesday, June 22

win·some (Have we forgotten?)

 
win·some
 adj.  Charming, often in a childlike or naive way.
 
So what does it mean to be winsome? 
Word History: Winsome people easily win friends, so it is not surprising that winsome and win have a common root.  Their shared root *wen-, meaning "to desire, strive for,"  has a number of descendants in the Germanic languages:
  1. wini- meaning "friend" (literally, "one who desires or loves" someone else), which became wine in Old English 
  2. wynn: "pleasure, joy ", preserved in winsome. 
  3. win: "to strive for with success, be victorious."
Longing to win loving, joyful, friendship.  (Did we forget what it means to be a child?) 
 
Matthew 19:15 "Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.” 
 
John 15:11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. "
 
 

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