The latest thoughts are: Stay connected, (I completely blanked on the second thought) and live each moment with purpose. I don't edit these posts (except for grammar and structure) and I'm writing off the top of my head so this is what happens when I don't write things down. It's funny that the first two thoughts have been with me for awhile but only in my head. It wasn't until just this week that the third thought formed and now I can't remember the second one. wow...
This takes me on a tangent (which is just another way of saying that I had an agenda for this post that is currently on hold). As I realized that I couldn't recall the second thought I had some quick thoughts of disappointment and a frantic memory search. Then the realization that if I truly dial in the first thought, Stay Connected, all else will fall into place. Maybe I was starting my own religion of "3 thoughts"...by that I mean creating a structure for myself that placed more emphasis on the structure and following the "rules" (even if they were self imposed) than allowing the Life of God to flow through me. So I just added to the title line...
If I live as I was designed to live, in constant connection to God, my life will have meaning, purpose, joy, hope and more in abundance. The challenge is to let go of my agenda, of my small and pitiful ideas of what will bring true joy and satisfaction and trust the author to write my story like I know He has, He can, and He will. This will happen on the macro scale with the 'big' decisions and on the micro scale, the moment by moment awareness of my relationship with God and whether I'm open or closed, running to or avoiding, listening or ignoring. The micro, as it turns out, is more important than the macro as all 'big' decisions are a culmination or result of many small decisions. The most important decision I can make right now is to be as connected to God as the branch is to the vine.
It will be interesting to see if that second thought comes back to me...
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The next day, Christmas, I remembered the second thought: Keep my promises. It was prompted by Seth Godin on a short post about the number one rule in marketing anything, including yourself. Like most truisms, it works across the board and can be overlooked easily in the search to impress with something new and exciting.
Keeping promises will happen automatically when I stay connected though. But maybe not. Maybe when it becomes logistically impossible to keep a promise and I'm connected to God, the opportunity then is for humility and an apology which ironically can have as much potential for good as keeping the promise. Another paradox. Not that I would naturally look for a way out of a promise but I need to remember that I can't see the BIG picture like God can...
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