Thoughts

My mind is too deeply busy with amazing thoughts and bits of information.  

I don’t know where to go or where to begin.  

It has to do with the  entire world of people.  People and the ways we function,  and how we think,  and why we do what we do, and how we live.  

It has to do with Moses, and Abraham, and Jeremiah, and Isaiah and Jesus.

It has to do with the constant message they all brought to the people of their time in history. 

The same message (the very same message) we have all -- at least most of us -- in some way, heard from the time we were children.  That is, all the rules of kindergarten and Sunday School. 

It is about how we relate to each other and why.

It is about how we speak, and act, and think.

What I heard is that we love our neighbor — of course.  But we could then ask: How do we do that?  What does that mean?

I heard that we are to be kind.  To do what is good and caring for one another.   And we asked: “To everyone?"

I  clearly  then heard not to be greedy.  That we need to share what we have.  But,  that gets a bit too involved for our private-ness.  That gets more difficult to hear.

The one I have heard, in my last fifteen or twenty years, loud and clear is to be humble and develop a servant’s mind.

And to that most of the whole world says: “Wait a minute.  Back up a little and consider what you are saying.”

So I ask you: What is that message that most of the world finds too difficult to hear?

To be clear,  most of us like having others follow all those rules.  

                                                                                     Right?

Please, I am not meaning to be at all negative in these thoughts.

What I am is confused.  

Maybe I am sad. 

      Or maybe I am feeling helpless.

And so I am sitting here this morning very quietly; trying to remember that God has, for centuries, been dealing with all of the contradictory and paradoxical mentalities of the human ego.

And what I need to do is trust, and have faith, in his power to continue creating and recreating order in all of the chaos.

That is what is on my mind this morning.