Ezuru

 Ezuru in Igbo means: sufficient, enough, adequate. Epiousios means a substance that is mechanical/instrumental. Both words describe the bread that is for today. Both don't quite fit in English. They have this nebulous meaning cloud that fits around the English word alone. The English "daily" means concerning each day, occurring each day. The way the word is used, "daily" means that which is sufficient for a person's needs to live/function. The Aramaic word that Jesus actually used spīḳ. I am not sure what it exactly means. Matthew writes the Aramic words in Greek, it is translated into Latin, then it is translated into English, then it is translated into Igbo around 1857, for the first time.

My Dad taught me Lord's prayer by the time I was eight. This word, I glided over, I knew what they were and as a whole they constituted the Lord's prayer. I did not know this specific word until the age of 20, when I asked my Dad to break down each word and what it meant. I needed to know. English, be it ever so humble, claims to be based in the empires and language of the Greek and Romans. Igbo, did not claim anything other than it's own people, one of which was me. 

The longer I study the history of my fathers. The more I learn of a people who were not perfect, people who lived, died, fell in love, made bets and debts, and danced to really good music all the while. My people are not super-human, we are very human, even in our genius. I learned to accept a history with no land-spanning imperial period, with no invention-filled, world-changing classical period. I accepted a history without an identity based on oppressing the identity of another. I accepted fellow speakers who were smelting iron fifteen hundred years before Christ was born. By the time I was halfway through college, I accepted something my father had been trying to give me my whole life God had been trying to give me by giving me to my mother and father. The offer to be one of the families created when Babel fell.

That identity, for me, for all my days, is...

ezuru (enough, sufficient, adequate).