Mrs. Twining, a professor of deaf education at Ball State University in the 70′s told a story about a young deaf child who was learning to sign. He had just finished getting a drink of water at the water fountain. She spoke and signed to him, “Did you get enough?” The boy gave her a confused look as he did not understand the sign for ‘enough’. So she sent him back to the fountain for more water, he returned and she asked him again, “Did you get enough?” Again, the boy did not understand and she redirected him to the fountain for a third drink. As he approached she asked again, “Did you get enough?” This time the boy used his hand, palm flat, parallel to the floor, yet placed up above his mouth to indicate he was full of water. She spoke and signed ‘enough’ to him. The boy realized what the sign for enough meant as he nodded in the affirmative that he most assuredly had enough water.
In 1975, Charles Jones, the pastor of Kempsville Baptist Church in Virginia Beach Virginia asked a question during his message on a spring Sunday morning… “If everything and everybody you hold dear were gone by the time you got home from church today, would Jesus be enough?”
At Women of Faith in 2007, author, speaker, and Bible teacher, Beth Moore shared about the word ‘enough’ in a lesson about God’s gift of ministry to followers. The acronym she created suggested a meaning for enought to be: even nothing offerred unconditionally glorifies Him.
Recent months have forced me to examine ‘enough’ on many different levels in my own life, both practically and spiritually. I am interested to hear what you have to say about this six letter word and what enough might mean in your life and experience. Tell me what you think, will you?
