First Thing First
This song has been on my mind radio a lot lately. I've been hearing it on the radio in the car, and I noticed something beautiful in the chorus: First things first I seek Your will Not my own Surrender all my wants to You to live Your truth walk Your ways set my eyes Lord, I fix my face on you all my desires reversed to keep the first thing first Notice that while the chorus starts out with the plural "things", it ends with the singular - "thing". I heard something interesting lately - and I can't remember where. I've been trying for days. Someday I'll remember. The idea was that the plural "priorities" wasn't invented as a word until some time post-industrialism. Prior to that there only existed the singular, "priority". A quick Google search shows that the popular opinion is that the word was pluralized in the 1400s. I don't usually take popular opinion as fact, but I haven't done the work to find a solid source on...