If we are too concrete, too solid, there is no room for creativity to swirl around and produce something fresh, something of note, something of worth, something that will last and stand the Test of Time.
Writing, like life, needs flexibility, the ability to flex, and be fluid, moveable, transparent, adjustable and adaptable. We need the ability to change our minds, to prefer something other than ‘standard fare.’ The diet of standard fare is for the masses, the ‘Un-thinking’ ones, those who will soak up just about anything that is dished out to them, and believe it to be true.
I want to ‘dish out’ more than tripe, more than fodder, more than just plain old trash. I want to write something that will stop people dead in their tracks, yet move them at the core of their beings. Yes, ‘shake, rattle, and roll.’ I intend to stir up people to think outside the box, to renew their thinking patterns, to leave their old, well-worn ways of thinking about things, to question their hidden core beliefs and to examine them in the fresh light of a new day, a day they haven’t lived before. I want them to rethink their old ways so that if something is really and realistically, ‘truly true’, they will know it at the core of their beings and their belief system. A rut is just a grave hole with both ends knocked out.
At its least harmful, Doubt is well worth examining – at least once in a lifetime, if not more. We do not grow by not questioning, by not examining, by not scrutinizing, our thinking. If we truly ‘doubt our doubts and believe our beliefs’, the Truth will shine through, and found to be of worth, and our belief systems will prove themselves to be worthy of our trust, our belief. If our beliefs cannot stand the time of trial, the time of testing, they might not be worthy of our trust. Let us endeavor to be worthy of our beliefs, and in turn, find our beliefs to be worthy of our trust in them. Let us move on from a milk feed diet, and start to grapple with meat, real meat, meat that can provide nourishment and nutrition for our souls.
That way we can leave ‘the elementary things’ behind and grow into Maturity.
Please allow me to temporarily interrupt your normal thought processes and to challenge your normal thinking patterns to enable you to determine if your thinking is straight, if your belief system is accurate in terms of reality, and if your doubts are really that disastrous...if at all damaging to your psyche and injurious to your soul.
In the Book of Romans, the Apostle Paul says that 'right thinking leads to right actions.' It will also determine your destiny. The Psalmist says that 'the Fool says in his heart that there is no God.'
So, in the spirit of 'Peace on Earth and Goodwill to Men,' let me ask you if your belief is real, if your doubts are troublesome or problematic, if your thoughts are logical, etc., etc., etc...
Take a moment to sit back in your favorite chair, close your eyes, and imagine. Imagine that if your thinking is off-kilter, faulty, disastrous, or just plain "stinking thinking." Ask yourself, Where will you end up with thinking like that? If your thinking is illogical, inaccurate, or just plain dumb, where will that lead you?
Now, don't write me to let me know where you are in 'the process,' but turn your thoughts God-ward, and prayerfully ask Him to lead you by the power and presence of the Holy Spirit to redirect your thinking into paths of Truth, Righteousness, Holiness and Justice.
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