You are young, so you may not have experienced an
ephiphany yet. An epiphany is when you suddenly realize something or suddenly comprehend
something. It is sometimes called an "Aha! Moment" because when you have an ephiphany,
you often exclaim, "Oh! Ah ha!"
You can look up some famous
epiphanies in real life - one listed is when Archimedes realized how to estimate the
volume of a given mass. He supposedly exclaimed, "Eureka! I have found it!" Another
epiphany from real life is perhaps when Sir Isaac Newton was sitting under the apple
tree, the apple fell on his head, and he realized that gravity existed. Or, when Martin
Luther was reading the book of Romans in the Bible, and he came to Ephesians where it
said "By grace are you saved, through faith" and he may have said, "Oh! NOW I see!
Salvation is up to God - I can't save myself! Ah ha!" and this led him to find 95 things
wrong with the Church, and post his 95 theses on the cathedral
door.
Have you ever suddenly understood a math problem? Or
suddenly understood what one of your teachers was explaining? Or have you been reading a
novel like Great Expectations and suddenly realized at one point in
the novel, "Ah ha! I bet Miss Havisham is NOT Pip's benefactor! I'll bet it is the
convict!" If so, you have had an epiphany. They are not always as dramatic as
discovering gravity!
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