There are two things that I read everyday. One is Scripture and the other is the news. Of course, I watch the news but when I came up into adulthood we all read the news. Old habits die hard. There was no internet during most of my life but seeing as how it was taking over I learned to use it despite my misgivings. In my opinion, the internet offers far too much to handle properly for a simple human being. Do you mind if I refer to us as simple? There is a reason for this and that is what I wanted to write about.
Simplicity, we all wish for it, don’t we? But, do we know what we are wishing for? Is anything about being alive simple? I believe we have to drop into the mode of asking what simple means. Simple, a word comprised of six letters. Who invented those six letters? A lot of thought went into our language and it was no simple task to make it legible to so many. Sure, it is easy for us and we speak and write without a second thought. Perhaps we speak too much? The more speech the more complexity as ideas are like flies, they buzz around, annoyingly, for a few days, then die. Yet, some of those who heard those ideas take them up as though they were beneficial in some way. Beneficial to whom? To those of the ilk of the one who came up with the idea. Look at the left. Do they possess good ideas? Opinions may differ but we can all agree that destruction is not a positive, I think.
Now we have speech, ideas, and the vagaries of human thought. It is kind of like figuring out which strand was the first in the web a spider made. Personally, I think this is why I write so much. Follow me here. I write as it helps me sort and the sorting I do is kind of like the woman on the assembly line whose job it is to pull the dander from the eatable food product on the conveyor belt. No one wants a pebble in their bag of peanuts. Except, maybe, the dentist?
Sorting is what I urge us all to do and the ease comes when we understand right from wrong and do our utmost not to do wrong. This is where our conscience comes in and that instrument of decision making might well be given us by God so that we have an automated dictate that pops into our heads and tells us not to do something we are considering doing. How often have you done something that your conscience suggested you not do? Well, speaking for myself, to many to count. Always, from my lesser judgement and greater sorrow. My better judgement, with the aid of my conscience, told me I was a fool. I was good at being a fool and thank God I am no longer one who doesn’t listen or think before acting. Maybe this is what we are lacking in society? Could it be that simple?
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