Dorean

Dorean—     Freely, gratis, as a free gift:    Freely you have received, freely give. Matthew 10:8b      Without cause: They hated me without reason John 15:25 ~Jesus the One and Only, Beth Moore   In my story “Given Away,” the main character Azure is confronted by a villain who seeks to steal the wings the Gift-Giver granted her. Nearby is a little boy with torn wings given to him in mockery of Azure’s gift. She makes an impossible decision: “You may have my wings... you must give my wings to him.” As the story ends, Azure weeps on the edge of the cliff, unable to understand why she gave her wings away. I had no answer for her either, until this morning when I was reading my Beth Moore Bible study and stumbled across the Greek word dorean.   Everything fell into place. Grace and hatred; both are without cause, both are beyond explanation. Just as Azure received her wings dorean—freely—from the Gift-Giver, she gave them away dorean—without cause. But in the eyes of the world, aren’t all the greatest gifts unreasonable? The creation of the universe? The gift of free will? The salvation that came through a cross? Unreasonably precious gifts. As one chorus says, “How can it be/that you, my King/would die for me?”             Dorean.             It gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘unreasonable.”