'THINK on THESE THINGS'
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler
At night sometimes the world seems so topsy-turvy and you're
so weary of doing things the same old way. Then nothing seems to please.... You try desperately for something new and different,
something that doesn't seem so much like you. Why? Tonight you are different.
One cannot expect the world to be top
side up all the time. Such perfection does not come so easily to human nature. And always there is a search for something
new and different. A change of pace... That thought that I don't want to be me today, to think my thoughts and do my daily
chores. I want to make a complete change now, to know a whole new way of life. And it is good to leave behind many daily situations
that sometimes stand too closely to be seen clearly, but to be wise enough to know which things should be left behind.
There
have been clean sweeps that have left behind the dearest things.... And have taken along the same dreary, dark unhappy things
of the mind that should have been left behind.
A line from the prayer of serenity is "The wisdom to know the difference..."
And wisdom, says
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, is common sense in an uncommon degree. If one has the wisdom to wait a bit, wait until morning -
or several mornings - that uncommon degree of common sense will give us the wisdom to know the difference.
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'THINK
on THESE THINGS'
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler
We often wonder why we must come in contact with some phases of life
that seem so unrelated to how we think and plan. It seems we should be able to proceed without stopping all along the way
to contend with things that really have little kinship to what we're trying to do.
But no matter how we question and
analyze, situations and events continue to present themselves for solving. It takes a great deal of wisdom to know the difference
between that which we must do and that which we must refuse serious consideration. This very thin line is the deciding factor
in the victory or defeat of any plan.
Like a well-written story, sometimes the smallest incident hidden among our experiences
can play a very big part at some later time. It is difficult to know just which parts of the puzzle will fall into place to
complete a picture we seek.
We must take one step at a time, being sensibly aware of the thoughts we store in our minds.
For "as a man thinketh in his heart, so he is." As long as we dwell on all the unnecessary activities we will never have time
for the important things. If we seek the wisdom of the one Creative Mind we have much less chance of being led astray by the
glitter of unimportant things.
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