The Mind & Do We Mind

9/28/2018

This is a tumbled up morning when it comes to the SIMH. Several songs popped in and out in short snippets, some of them are “repeats” of ones I have written about, some didn’t stay long enough to get the name of it clearly. I get weirder by the day about this, I guess. So, as the mind wandered and began to settle as dust, there was a song came to mind that might just fit this day: It says, “I got a song Ain’t Got No Melody —Ooh, ooh, ooh!” Yep, that fits. This was written in 1971 by Billy Preston. Second line says, “Gonna sing it to my friends”: I think I have both heard that song from my friends, and sang it to them!!

Life is a multifaceted thing. Perhaps multi-sided is a better word. There is the side that anyone and everyone can see which could be called the “omnibus” side. Then there is the “personal” side which only a very few people can see, a side which can change a lot more rapidly than the omnibus side. Another side we all have is the “private” side: one held so closely to ourselves that only the Lord knows about it (and rightly so.)

But, there are some other “sides” to most of us, sides that rear our “ugly” heads, or “valiant” strengths, or certain “weaknesses.” Lastly, yet should always be first: our “spiritual” side. A seven-sided life. We can pick apart these seven aspects  and beat them to a pulp! Or, we can accept them as they are, then set out to change only those things about each where we need help by increasing our understanding.

So, we have a list of facets:

1. Omnibus, what everyone sees
2. Personal, what a few see
3. Private, all that the Lord sees
4. Ugly, what we wish no one would ever see
5. Valiant, what is strong and/or benevolent, want seen
6. Weaknesses, where/how we fail and we wish not be seen
7. Spiritual, our most important facet which should be seen

We’ll begin work on these as time and space permits. Most of these will take more time to think through and then write about than merely seeing that we all have these sides. My fear is I’m the only one who is an example of all these. If so, that’ll be boring for most of you. But, watch this space.

The children of Congress played in the mud and muck yesterday, very ugly side of them, don’t you think? I repeat what I said a couple days ago: “why would anyone examine an applicant, who has been in the profession for 25 years, on the basis of his teenage years?” Would any of us above the age of 50 want our teenage years exposed? to anyone? for any reason? Naw, it’s just dirty politics from people who can’t tell childhood from adulthood because they never left the former and cannot recognize the latter.

So, I don’t doubt the poor professor has had a horrid experience. But the lack of memory would just as easily include who did it, would it not? I’ve read many accounts where a form of psycho analysis called “suggestive memory” has placed people in the memory of another who was never before in that patients life. (I don’t put anything past politicians who want their own way, folks.) The vehemence of the judge’s denial and the lack of corroboration leaves me believing he is innocent of this thing.

But, as one reporter said, “How will we ever know?” Once again, the nation is in the hands of a few people we never really know. Thank God for a Savior! and, in Christ Jesus, thank God for a better hope!

Thanks for reading, the Elder