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Monday, April 14, 2014

Sigma/ Shin /Shaddai

The other day I was outside with my daughter and it was about 5 or 6pm. I was watering the garden and the sun was going down. There was a space on the grass where the sunlight was shining (I was in total shade ) so I told her to go stand in the sunlight, and I walked her over there and then she wanted me to throw the ball for the dog. I threw it once then twice and the 2nd time I threw it, my eyes went up to the sun and I closed my eyes because it was bright- and when I closed my eyes I saw an image - a symbol - and so I closed my eyes to see what I was "seeing" in the back of my eyelids, and it looked just like something I have seen before but I wasn;t sure what it was. It looked like the greek letter e. Like an uppercase E with pointy edges. So I went and drew what I saw and then I went inside to look up what a greek letter e looks like and also, what does it mean.
Som when I looked up the Sigma, (which is what the letter stands for in Greek), it was exactly what I saw when I had closed my eyes after looking into the sun. I did a little research and all I found was that the symbol - the greek E Sigma means "sum" (in mathematics). So, I was kindof dissappointed it didn't mean something more.
It has been a few days about a week since that happened and I gave up my search. but then today I started a search for "the names of God", because I have a friend who is researching that topic intently. When I typed it in I switched the results over to the image results and as I was looking I came across the Hebrew letters and I realized that greek comes from Hebrew, so I figured out that that greek letter E was first a Hebrew letter called "Sin" or "Shin" - and it makes the "S" sound. Now, I personally do not know why there letter is called sin, but they made that up I did not (you can research it for yourself). Anyways, It has much more meaning in the Hebrew than the Greek. And the meaning is valuable.

According to a wikipedia article on the letter "Shin", the old Israelites used to place a scroll on there doorposts with a blessing for their house written on it. And then this scroll with the blessing was sealed with a symbol (they used the letter representing Shin), because Shin also means Shaddai. And Shaddai means Most High. (I used to have an info guide that said El Shaddai means The God Most High, and I know El means God).
So.... to "sum" all of this up :) When I was a young child, there was a night when I was laying in bed and I asked God that if He was real, would he please show me a sign.
At that time I saw in my mind's eye a scroll rolled up by a window... Now I have my answer.

God is Great.
Amen

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