Transcript of “Bringing Strength with Comfort”
If you look up the word comfort in the Oxford English Dictionary, the first use of the word back in the 13th century was meant to strengthen, to strengthen morally or spiritually. And it goes back to the Latin word fortis, which means strength. It’s a relative of words like fortitude and fortify and fort.
If you’re comforting somebody, in a sense, you’re strengthening them. And even though we’ve, so we’ve come some distance from that original usage, you feel like there’s still a sense of that there. Sometimes when you’re comforting, you’re providing them with your own strength so that they can carry on.
Yeah, yeah. I confess that that never occurred to me until I looked it up.
Right.
Okay.
I could see that.
