Heaven #4279 True Grace
Dear Gloria,
in http://www.heavenletters.org/true-grace.html
parag. 4
"This is a great secret to life. The humility I speak of is not about acting modestly, you understand. It is not about a role you play. It is not about being polite. It is not about anything but how you see life and what is important and what is not. You can let life go its way. Life is served, and you can skip along. You can traipse rather than march. You are no longer a foe of life. You are no longer an obstructionist."
I understand to skip off, over, from but what does skip along mean, especially in the context of "life is served and you can skip along". Is there a contrast between "served" and "skip along"?
And in the couple traipse/march, is it a contrast between traipse and "walk straight forward"?
Thanks
Sometimes your questions are
Sometimes your questions are hard! But that's good.
Skipping here means like hop, skip, and jump! When we were children, we used to skip. You know, the particular movement with our legs. So skip along is one way to say to move along. Skipping is usually fast-paced.
I see serving and skipping here as the same. We're not only going forward when we skip with our legs, we're also happy! In fact, I read somewhere once that if we skip, we will find ourselves happier!
With march and traipse, I see it it's okay to march, and, it's also okay to traipse along. Traipse is a slow pace. A little brother or sister might traipse along with their older brother or sister so it also seems to mean to follow. It's okay however we come along.
Does this help, dear one?
Yes, dear one, I needed that
Yes, dear one, I needed that help. I could not grasp the particular meaning without your explanation.
Hope it helps other translators (especially the latin ones!).