Your clarification of repent, brought to my mind the etymology of words, and my own barely grasped latin root words, often filtered through the french I did study. I recalled that 'penser' means to think, so indeed re-penting is thinking again (differently), a mind shift. And then I looked up the word's etymology and saw I was was wrong in my assumptions, but maybe it will be easier to remember the original meaning by having made my own interpretation.
When Lucas was born with only 1 eye, “If your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light.” came back to my memory, and gave me a viewpoint of joy in his holding an inner light. I saw it reflect the ideas I had in choosing his name. I later also felt it was a message that he was here to shine light on what was hidden. The bible translations I looked into to try to find that phrase all were worded differently and seemed a bit off the mark, so I'm glad to be reminded of this again.
Your clarification of repent, brought to my mind the etymology of words, and my own barely grasped latin root words, often filtered through the french I did study. I recalled that 'penser' means to think, so indeed re-penting is thinking again (differently), a mind shift. And then I looked up the word's etymology and saw I was was wrong in my assumptions, but maybe it will be easier to remember the original meaning by having made my own interpretation.
When Lucas was born with only 1 eye, “If your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light.” came back to my memory, and gave me a viewpoint of joy in his holding an inner light. I saw it reflect the ideas I had in choosing his name. I later also felt it was a message that he was here to shine light on what was hidden. The bible translations I looked into to try to find that phrase all were worded differently and seemed a bit off the mark, so I'm glad to be reminded of this again.