Homophones

At 5:00 am today I was awake, as I usually am, every day. I said a little prayer asking for a hint about today’s post (here). Two words sprang into my mind: pleas and please. Their juxtaposition put me in mind of the song “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen. We send out pleas to the Lord and hope that our actions please Him. Interesting.

So, that thought presented me with another pair of homophones: freeze and frees. And then another pair: seize and sees. I could go on and on, but I think you get the gist. For every secular word, there is another with a more spiritual tone, the secret chord…