THOUGHTS

May 26, 2020

A repost from 2013

The gentle rain softened the ground so that even I was able to go out and pull most of the weeds in the garden.  Baby tomato plants were settled in while the strawberries were spreading their ground cover under blueberry plants and beyond.  More tomatoes, basil, lettuce, and green beans go in next.  

This the most exercise I get all year.  Normally, my exercise routine consists of doing diddly squats.  The only regular exercise I do is called housework, and that I do as little as possible, though I do try to keep the exercise machine dusted.  Since five out of the six of my mother's siblings had Alzheimer's, the most important thing for me is to do is to exercise my brain.  So, I read and think and write.  

Once I heard a psychologist speak at a conference, and her point was that people have become too busy to think for themselves.  That has always stuck with me.  We have become too shallow and complacent and prefer to be entertained, myself included.  

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

Socrates

One of the fallacies that the false teaching of evolution has engrained in us is that people are getting smarter and smarter.  I beg to differ. Yes, technology and inventions and science are soaring, but the average person has dumbed down.  Duh, just look at our language.  See what I mean?  Yes, some societies advanced more than others, but all began as Adam and Eve living in a garden, not a cave, and they were made in the image of God, not an ape. 

Look at our failing schools.  Try reading books from the earlier centuries and see if you are not challenged.  Often young people went to college when they were thirteen and fourteen having mastered three or four languages in the early days of our country.  John Adam's son was sent as an ambassador to Europe before we would have allowed him a driver's permit.  

Exercise your brain.  Reading the Word is a good way to begin.  Study it.  Digest it.  Apply it.  Live it.  Listen.  Read.  Observe.  Think.  Pray and ask God to reveal to you Truth.  

I'm not opposed to going to the gym, zumba, or running a marathon, or all the things I don't do, I'm just saying, it does no good if you do not exercise your mind and spirit as well.  Even mummies have well-preserved bodies, but they are dead.  Live well from the inside out.  

"I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,

to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God,

which is your reasonable service."

Romans 12:1

I don't think Paul is talking about us presenting perfect physical specimens of buff bodies,

but our whole selves. What are you giving your life and money to?  Are your role models men and women in the flesh or spiritual examples?  I'm so dorky that I know very few movie stars names or faces, singers, or television series.  Sometimes when my kids get together and talk about their favorites, it's like a foreign language to me.  What kind of a role model are you?  Become interested in the things God is interested in and give your life to that.  You have a big muscle between your ears. Use it!