Saturday, October 31, 2015

Continuing Thoughts




A little more than five years ago (October 3, 2010), I started this blog. In the last month I have lost the desire to continue it as it was going. At one point I had considered this as an outlet for personal thoughts on a variety of subjects as they surfaced in my life. Somehow that morphed into a stream of “how to” additions that left me empty and feeling like I was saying nothing. With so many experts already in the field where I was writing, I decided I was wasting my time and that of any readers.

After a hiatus of more than a month, it is time for me to start writing again. This time it will be less regimented as to publishing date. Gone is the constraint of writing every Wednesday. It will be less didactical and simply more self-revelatory. The one thing I will continue is to show how my thoughts and development have their roots in the words of the Holy Bible, the word of God.

King Solomon is described as writing thousands of proverbs springing out of his wisdom. He found insight as he watched people and studied nature. Life itself was his teacher. This increase in wisdom came about because he opened his eyes and ears to the world and his spirit to the guidance of the Holy Spirit of God.

To get the most from this brief existence we call life in this world, we must all do the same. It begins when you are born, and it doesn’t end until you die. We learn from what we take in through our five physical senses and just as much from what we allow to touch our spiritual beings. If we cannot put that in a test tube or under a microscope, that doesn’t mean we are not learning just as much. Perhaps in one sense we are learning the more important lessons of life when we are learning through our hearts rather than through our minds.

Jesus said:

Mat 11:28-30 "Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find rest. For the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is light."

This journey I began at conception more than six decades ago has been filled with lessons. Many I have missed and will never know what I could have been had I been more sensitive to their presence. Today I am what I am because of the lessons I learned or failed to learn. I am probably richer because of both, not necessarily better, just richer.

Through all that time my greatest teacher has been my Lord Jesus Christ. Sometimes he spoke to me through his written word, the Bible. Often he spoke through those Christian saints who have already lived out their years in this mortal life. At times he has led me to see his lessons in the natural world when I was sensitive enough to let those experiences be interpreted through the nature of God.

In the future this blog will take a different form. For any who would take the time to read it, you will see the lessons I have learned and am learning under the tutelage of the Master Teacher. May God bless us both.