12/13/2018
Good morning! I think it’s going to be a great day. Sure, there is Winter going on here and there, but it is still a great day to do or go or say or be the right thing! So, “Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in (Christ)” He’s the “One with whom we have to do.” The SIMH today was actually on my mind yesterday evening. Not sure what prompted it, I came out from changing clothes to sit and rest, read, watch..whatever, and I began to sing, “Sing them over again to me, Wonderful Words of Life”; “Words of life and beauty, Teach me faith and duty. Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.” Philip Bliss wrote this song 144 years ago. Marvelous inspiration.
Ever want to do something for someone because it looks like they have run out of initiating thoughts? I have — I do. Getting them started again after a momentary setback is difficult. How do we help those who cannot seem to restart their momentum? How do we prompt in another the planning, establishing, stabilizing, work load needed, not just for success, but for their very survival? Perhaps, we cannot. But, it is right in front of us to do something for them, so we must “be there for them.”
Positive thinking rallies, seminars, recordings, are often helpful on a broad brush base. That is, it’s a way to change one’s thought patterns and thereby squelch negativity. In most cases, however, it still will not prompt what I’m calling “initiating thoughts.” IT isn’t just Information Technology, as the 21st Century understands the term. IT is also Initiating Thought. That is, thoughts which begin as one, and exponentially burgeon into massive plans. Let’s take the life of a doldrum (did you know doldrum cannot be singular, according to your dictionary.) A doldrum is one who is in the doldrums of life. So I’m pondering, how does one stop being a doldrum? answer: spirit. (Doldrums are areas at sea which have no wind.)
Often it helps to rearrange thought patterns. For instance, let’s think like a farmer! If a farmer decides in December or January that come Spring they will plant corn and cotton, when will they start work on the plan? Spring? No, that’s a little late. To plant cotton or corn, the work must start way before Spring. Every farmer knows first things first and to plant in Spring takes planning before to get seeds, sharpened plow points, a tune up for the equipment, repairs made from last year’s wear and tear, etc., right down to air in the tires! And when warm weather settles the frostline into soil temperature rising (cold falls, heat rises), he knows to tend to the soil’s needs first. That’s when he cleans out his barn stalls: yes, he shovels and pitchforks the manure of the Winter. From the phrase above “work must start” nothing has produced anything and it hasn’t been cheap! There is still no seed in the ground.
See the thought pattern?—IT, Initiating Thought.
To get out of the doldrums then, takes considerable planning. Oh, it isn’t going to happen without IT? No, it isn’t. Initiating Thought must be brought to one’s mind early in the year for their to be a harvest! This is biblical, it is in every success rally you’ll ever pay for, but it is in the bible for free. Set the mind to the pattern of thinking found in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and the success in the world is yours. Though the Lord Jesus put proper perspective on this world’s worth when he said, “A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesses,” He later, from heaven, inspired the Apostle Paul to write, “that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.” And so get on with it. Get your King James Bible down off the shelf, dust it off, open it up to Eccle.1 and start reading. After you finish Eccles, then go to Prov. 1 and get a good grip on the answer to this question: “what is wisdom?” (And remember, the smallest of creatures is used to describe the greatest of this sort of thought: the ant.) You’ll probably be amazed at the Initiating Thoughts which come to you: a pattern will set in, they should all be written down, studied, shortened or lengthened into a strong activity, and the doldrums will not be worrisome, they will have to go somewhere else.
Afraid to take this seriously? Stay in the doldrums. It isn’t my life you are living and I cannot remove you from the lack of IT. No one else can instill IT into you except you. You’re welcome.
Thanks for reading, the Elder
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