It has been a while since my last blog post and I have missed it. I love words and their origins, their history, and how they have been sculpted over time. Today's word is not a difficult or obscure word. Just means something to me and spoke to me. This is only my interpretation of it as well and I know is not 100% literally accurate.
I love the words adore and adoration. Someone once said to me, "I adore you." However, what does that really mean.
There are several definitions for this word.
1. to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
2. to pay divine honor to; worship:
3. to like or admire very much:
So the first two definitions are very intense and are full of meaning and intent. The third definition is luke warm and almost ambivalent at best. So when someone says, "I adore you!", how are you supposed to interpret that. I say that you have to look at the actions. Adore itself is a verb which in its very nature imply action. So to say the WORD adore means that there should be some action behind it.
Adoration on the other hand is a noun, a thing.
1. the act of paying honor, as to a divine being; worship.
2. reverent homage.
3.fervent and devoted love.
I have felt adoration before. When a person hears you. Really hears you and incorporates that almost seamlessly into their life and yours. Just seeing you happy and wanting so badly to see your smile (which to them lights up the entire room) is enough to motivate them to do anything to replicate that happiness that smile over and over and over again. You aren't ever inconvenient or a burden. But a treasure, a gift. That is adoration.
Although I have heard the words, I adore you, the act of feeling adoration from someone feels much more like an action verb than the word of action itself. So being a DOER of adoration is far more meaningful that being a sayer of supposed adoring action.
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