Five Minute Friday-Sustain

This week’s FMF writing prompt is: SUSTAIN

SUSTAIN

Oké, oké. But that word sustain… it was actually a totally unknown word for me. I know quite a lot of English words, but sustain? No idea.

So I looked it up. First I found the Dutch word onderhouden, but immediately I pictured a man with a gereedschapskist (toolbox) coming to check the cv-ketel... oh that's a boiler, you know.  Not exactly inspiring for a Five Minute blog. Then I found the Dutch word in stand houden. But that sounds more like keeping an old tradition alive or protecting an old building.

Ondersteunen maybe? I didn’t know.

Funny how one little word can have so many layers. What does it mean exactly? This English word simply refuses to cooperate. And now I already wrote for five minutes, so I guess this little blog is finished.

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Ten minutes later...

I found it in my English Bible: “Cast thy burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain thee.” And in Dutch? It says onderhouden. Apparently sustain has about seventeen meanings and my brain understood exactly none of them. So I needed Psalm 55 to explain it to me personally.

Ssssst… this does not count for the five minute prompt.