Sesquicentennial State Park, Columbia, South Carolina
What exactly is a ‘beatitude’? It’s a word that covers the first eight statements Jesus makes during what we know as The Sermon on the Mount. All the ‘Blessed are….’ statements. The word refers to a state of utmost bliss, or complete happiness that comes from being blessed, i.e. made holy, by God. This word hasn’t been around forever. It’s existence, according to etymonline (etymology = the origin of words) is as follows:
beatitude (n.) early 15th century, “supreme happiness,” from Old French béatitude (15th century) and directly from Latin beatitudinem (nominative beatitudo) “state of blessedness,” noun of state from past-participle stem of beare “make happy”. Attested from 1520s as “a declaration of blessedness,” usually plural, beatitudes, especially in reference to the Sermon on the Mount.
Now that we’ve had our English lesson, we’ll begin with the first beatitude tomorrow. 😊
There are quite a few campsites, but hardly anyone here.
It feels kinda weird, but it’ll probably pick up this coming weekend.
It was Domestic Day in the Peck household, so we decided to divide and conquer the chores today. Blaine dropped me at the laundromat, and he went errand running and grocery shopping.
After lunch, we just walked around the Park some, collected information and chatted with a Canada goose who was very disappointed in us when we didn’t feed him.
but now we know where the Park name came from!
We’re having buffalo chicken sandwiches for dinner today, and Blaine had a hankerin’ for Arby’s curly fries to go with it, so he bought some at the store. Then told me he’d love to have some Arby’s sauce to go with them, so dutiful wife that I am, I went to my friend Google and quickly discovered a clone recipe. It was yummy!
Tomorrow will be another information overload day, so get ready!