Good evening – it’s before the nightly journey of bedtime. I have been getting some sleep and having some pretty wild dreams. Hope this finds you well. Tonight I learned a new word from a live streamer I watch named Maddie. She said her favorite word is sonder. Here is what AI says it means:
Sonder is the realization that every random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own, with their own ambitions, friends, routines, and worries. It is a neologism created by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows to describe the profound feeling of understanding that everyone is the main character in their own life story, not just a background extra in yours.
If you think about it there are so many random people that flow in and out of our lives. So many stories to be told. I often think of this when I’m in the car and come to a stoplight with many other cars filled with people. I think of the multi-verse. How many worlds within worlds! Each car a world of its own and within that world passengers – each a world of their own. No one is insignificant. Everybody is somebody!
Psalm 8:4-6New International Version
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?[a]
5 You have made them[b] a little lower than the angels[c]
and crowned them[d] with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their[e] feet:
To be 