Starstruck meaning
Doing so fills us with wonder and awe, reminds of the extravagance of God’s love, humbles us by the sheer vastness of all that God has done. To consider is to see by the light of God’s glory and His expansive love. To consider is to root our thoughts in the perspective of the stars. Yes, to look up and out, billions of miles out into the vastness of space, filled with innumerable stars.
The literal translation “with the stars” brings the word so much more alive, doesn’t it? If I were to create one, I would include this notion in my definition: to reflect on as if pondering the stars, to gaze as if with wonder and awe, to think carefully and reflectively as when one looks up and out at the night sky. Then I consulted a few dictionaries and collected the following definitions: to think about carefully, to think of especially with regard to taking some action, to take into account, to regard or treat in an attentive or kindly way, to gaze on steadily or reflectively, to come to regard. Sure enough, the word “consider” comes from the Latin words cum (with) and sidera (stars), yielding a meaning of “with the stars.” You want me to consider the word “consider.” There’s something mystical and spiritual about it, isn’t there?Īfter prayer, I spent some time checking out my hypothesis. Paul’s Letter to the Romans: You must consider yourselves dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus (Rom 6:11). As often happens, I forgot about it and didn’t investigate further.īut then in this morning’s reading from the Office, there it was again, in St. With my knowledge of Latin, it occurred to me that the word “consider” might have something to do with the stars, because the Latin word sidera means “stars” or “heavenly bodies.” How interesting! I’ve used the word for years and yet that thought had never crossed my mind before.
Or is it? Why did it suddenly strike me so? Recently, such was the case with the word “consider.” It’s just an ordinary, every-day word.
You’re tempted to say, “There it is again!” Every now and then a word suddenly catches your ear, and suddenly you notice it several times in one day.