Here's Your Word!

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Peace on Earth cannot happen apart from peace with Earth.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Becoming aware of your presence brings wisdom.
Recognizing your blessings inspires gratitude.
Accepting your forgiveness makes us merciful.
Seeing creation’s wonders fosters humility.
Walking with you gives us peace that overcomes fear.
Knowing you adds reverence to and for life.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“A crumb from my table, Samaritan woman: God loves you, and so do I.”

[Now we know why He never said it…]

D. Blog: Word of the Week

“Syzygy”

Who knew there could be so much connected to this unusual word???

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Wiktionary, the free dictionary:

Syzygy is a kind of unity, especially through coordination or alignment, most commonly used in the astronomical and/or astrological sense.
Syzygy is derived from the Late Latin syzygia, "conjunction," from the Greek σύζυγος (syzygos), "yoked together."

Astronomy
In astronomy, a syzygy is the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line. The word is usually used in context with the Sun, Earth, and the Moon or a planet, where the latter is in conjunction or opposition. Solar and lunar eclipses occur at times of syzygy, as do transits and occultations. The term is also applied to each instance of New Moon or Full Moon when Sun and Moon are in conjunction or opposition, even though they are not precisely on one line with the Earth.

The word 'syzygy' is often loosely used to describe interesting configurations of planets in general. For example, one such case occurred on March 21, 1884 at around 23:00 UTC, when Mercury transited the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both simultaneously transited the Sun as seen from Saturn. It is also used to describe situations when all the planets are on the same side of the Sun although they are not necessarily found along a straight line, such as on March 10, 1982.

Gnosticism
In Gnosticism, a syzygy is a divine active-passive, male-female pair of aeons, complementary to one another rather than oppositional; in their totality they comprise the divine realm of the Pleroma, and in themselves characterise aspects of the unknowable Gnostic God. The term is most common in Valentinianism.

Mathematics [You might choose to skim/skip this section]
In mathematics, a syzygy is a relation between the generators of a module M. The set of all such relations is called the "first syzygy module of M." A relation between generators of the first syzygy module is called a "second syzygy" of M, and the set of all such relations is called the "second syzygy module of M." Continuing in this way, we get the n-th syzygy module of M by taking the set of all relations between generators of the (n-1)th syzygy module of M. If M is finitely generated over a polynomial ring over a field, this process terminates after a finite number of steps; i.e., eventually there will be no more syzygies (see Hilbert's syzygy theorem). The syzygy modules of M are not unique, for they depend on the choice of generators at each step.

Medicine
In medicine, the term is used to signify the fusion of some or all of the organs.

Music
Syzygy was the name of the electronic music duo that recorded for Rising High Records and Infonet Records in the 1990s. Dominic Glynn and Justin Mackay produced a hybrid of techno, ambient and electronica culminating in the cult album "Morphic Resonance".
Syzygy is the name of a composition written by Michael Brecker, can be found on the album titled: Michael Brecker.
Syzygy is also the name of a 1998 CD made by the band Lynch Mob. It is a project led by former Dokken bandmember and guitar virtuoso George Lynch, and a composition by the late tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker of his self titled album.

Philosophy
In philosophy, the Russian theologian/philosopher Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900) used the word "syzygy" to signify "unity-friendship-community," used as either an adjective or a noun, meaning:
a pair of connected or correlative things, or a couple or pair of opposites.

Poetry
In poetry, syzygy is the combination of two metrical feet into a single unit, similar to an elision. Consonantal or phonetic syzygy is also similar to the effect of alliteration, where one consonant is used repeatedly throughout a passage, but not necessarily at the beginning of each word.

Psychology
In psychology, Carl Jung used the term "syzygy" to denote an archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, which symbolized the communication of the conscious and unconscious minds. The conjunction of two organisms without the loss of identity.

Zoology
In zoology, syzygy is the association of two protozoa end-to-end or laterally for the purpose of asexual exchange of genetic material,
the pairing of chromosomes in meiosis

There is much more in the Wikipedia entry, but I conclude with a couple of interesting tidbits about the word:

Syzygy is the shortest English word containing three y 's. It is also the second-longest common English word containing neither a, e, i, o, nor u, being tied with rhythm. (The longest common word with this characteristic is rhythms, although it is beaten handily by the archaic word twyndyllyngs.)

And, it is the highest scoring word that can be played in Scrabble without using a vowel.