Thoughts

 

     It’s one of those occasions again when I sit and stare at the blank page of my word processor and wonder why the words are not flowing across the sheet as they have done so many times in the past.  The thought process doesn’t seem to be working today and a specific topic is simply not coming to my mind. 

     I was thinking about perhaps a subject on one of the many family issues that people are facing today.  But I then rejected that idea because which one of the many issues should be the one that I write about?  And simply writing about them and not having some workable type of solution would almost seem meaningless.  Everyone knows about family problems, but the real helpful writing would be to provide people a way to be able to deal with their problems and make improvements within their lives and the lives of their family members.  However, I am in no position to provide the answers they need.  I would only make suggestions of giving their circumstance serious and prayerful consideration.

     Then I was thinking I could write about a current topic in the political arena, although I don’t want to get myself involved in politics.  Because, there again, there would be so many issues to choose from, how would I know which one I should select?  And whichever one it was, there is no lack of heated arguments already going on concerning it that I would only be placing myself into the center of a fiery furnace from which I would not be able to survive!  It wouldn’t matter from which part of the world I would look either.  The topic couldn’t be looked at in balance, but would only tend to split the opinions of people and there are already enough of those types of discussions (or arguments) going on.

     With the thoughts going through my mind I should write some uplifting topic that will help people, if only momentarily, to shift their thinking from all the upsetting things that are going on in the world and replace them with a solid hope for the future.  However, it seems when I try to speak to people about such topics, the things that they should really hear and take action on, they are really not interested in listening to them.  For some reason they want to continue to lie in and wallow about in their own self-piety.  Often with no desire to improve their current condition, they only want to find some excuse for not making it better.

     So here I sit in front of my computer with all these thoughts going through my mind and trying to make a decision about a topic for this blog post.  What I find is that I am left completely alone with only my thoughts.  Perhaps there are times when that is the only way things can be because we’re only human!

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"The thing about all great inventions

is they start with a single thought!"