Sunday, November 24, 2019

Sunday school lesson for today

if you read the bible, (in an old fashioned translation) you will come across the phrase: gird your loins.

Uh, loins? 

that word isn't used much in English nowadays... 

once in awhile you read about a loincloth, (a man diaper) but outside of those cheezy historical films, one rarely see these used nowadays.

More commonly the word is known to those of us who cook, as a"top loin steak" (yum).

but what does "gird" mean?

The dictionary say one definition is to encircle or use a belt. Aha! as in girdle (yes, ladies, I am old enough to have worn one of them in the Madmen days of yore).

but it has another meaning;
intransitive verbto prepare for actionboth sides are girding for battlegird one's loinsto prepare for action muster up one's resources

But how does one "gird one's loins"?

the art of manliness has instructions:






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