Beer Lahai Roi
I've always been fascinated with words. I like words that sound either 1) really horribly strange and cacophonous, or 2) beautifully flowing words. I think if I had time in this life I'd create 2 languages - one that is horrible sounding (like Klingon) and one that flows (like Elvish in Lord of the Rings).
I've created a large number of words myself. Many of my pencil drawings have names that are composed of words that don't otherwise exist. This whole appreciation for neology is part of the micro-subculture of me and my eternal friends, the Jim Guys.
That said, I have always liked the Hebrew phrase, "Beer Lahai Roi". I guess I would say it has elements that are both flowing and cacophonous. I guess that's why I like: it includes the best of both worlds! I have no hidden message in this blog post. I am listening to Genesis today, and I heard the word. I couldn't pass up the chance to report of my appreciation. :) For the record, Beer Lahai Roi means "The well of the God who sees me". It is surrounding the account of Hagar and Ishmael, when an angel of God met them in the desert. I suppose there is significance even in those translated words. I would like to go to the well of the God who sees me. Yet those of us who have accepted Jesus Christ have within us a well of living water which springs to eternal life, and we shall never thirst again! Heck yeah! That's where I'm at! I have recently experienced an awareness of this well. I am indeed refreshed by the Spirit of Christ! Okay, didn't intend to have a "message", but I guess that was it! :)
Yeah! Beer Lahai Roi!
You Go, Girl! (to the well)
I think that is maybe what the angel is saying above.
He was kind of a cheerleader angel.
The painter forgot the pom poms.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"
Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
John 4:7-14 NIV