My husband’s granddad had two objects that delighted three small boys. One was a round and round bookcase that swiveled, revealing books on various sides. The other was a prize handled only with special permission. It was a large rectangle with a handle known as a bigger and bigger, or you would say a magnifying glass. The round and round lived out its life in our house on Rice and the magnifier has a home in a pigeon hole of my roll-top desk.
One of my more irritating health problems is weakening eyesight. The directions for medicine prescribed is written in minuscule print. At various times I have added magnifiers to help with a specific need. A small one from Berings lives in my purse. Push a button and it pops out and lights up to help check dosage on a bottle. Then the round one on a stand, also lighted, was bought when I had a cross-stitch project, and it is also used to help change ear pieces on hearing aids. Middle son gave me one on a head band to delineate the eye of the sewing machine needle and a wonderful round squatty one when a side study was identifying islands on an ocean map. This past week I ordered #6, surely the ultimate. It is the size of a piece of paper, has three choices of light, can be held by hand over the whole page of a book or has its own stand with room to slide the morning paper underneath. The comics are no longer one panel at a time.
All of the above represent the primary definition of the word – to magnify, increase in size or reaction. The triumphant finale to 1812 Overture magnifies your response to victory. To see a child take that first step magnifies the commitment of parenthood. Yet, the word can lessen in strength by the waning, “Don’t over magnify!” Choose the importance of a life moment in the vastness of years. Listen to a careless phrase carefully. The speaker may not have intended it to inflict hurt or destroy friendship. Feel shaky about the choice? You’re always safe if you give credit where credit is due.
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Psalm 34:3
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