What is a Life Verse?

Life Verse meaning…When you want to know the meaning of a word or phrase, the first stop in the Internet highway is usually Wikipedia. Yet when you start your Wiki search for the meaning of “life verse“, you will not find it there. In fact, they inquire “Did you mean life vest?” One of the most informative resource on the web has not yet defined life verse, so we can assume this phrase is a fairly new term in our culture. Merriam Webster agrees, and when you search “life verse” the response is “The word you’ve entered isn’t in the dictionary. ”

Where do you look now, when the meaning of life verse is not in Wikipedia or Merriam Webster? You look inside your own heart for the meaning! Deep down inside, you have a special life poem, life words, life prayer, or life saying. These important words have become your own life verse, the drive behind your decision making process, the motivation for your work, your life vest during an emergency. Life Verse. Important words to an individual person.

People are talking about life verses that have changed their lives. Often the life verse is related to scriptures and shared by Christian men and women. At the Debbie Alsdorf Design 4 Living Conference, I started observing Christian women speakers begin or end their speech with “my life verse.”  As these Christian women shared their stories of parenting, cancer survival, hardship, maturity and spiritual growth, they shared the verses that touched their hearts during these memorable times. Not familiar with the term at the time, I pondered this and recognized that I too was influenced by my own life verse.