You are my portion, filling up everythingI've seen this word a few times in different songs I've sung lately, but never had the chance to look up exactly how it is being used: portion. I knew about the normal definition we're all aware of, a part of a whole. I didn't know, though, that an older definition, and the one being used here, essentially means future or destiny.
I really appreciate the word play in this line. The common definition of portion, a part, filling up everything. It is clever even if it is not what Christy Nockels is actually meaning. She is singing that her future and destiny is filling up everything.
I've seen that be the case in my life as I've gotten older. My faith went from being something that I just knew was right but didn't have any interest in pursuing, to acquiring that interest, to growing in my faith, to, in a lot of ways, having my faith take over my life. My future and destiny is now filling up everything in my life, too.
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