Thinking It's About Time

What we are thinking about is an important aspect of how we are spending our time.  Even if our body is doing something unrelated, our mind can be using that time elsewhere.  I will spend six hours driving to LA on Monday, and those drives are usually a solid period of time for reflecting on life.  Interstate 5 is not the most interesting highway in the world, and since I travel at low traffic times, I usually have a lot of peaceful time to think.

What do you spend most of your time thinking about?  The answer to that question says a lot about who you are and where your priorities are.  That is where your energy is being directed.  Are you even conscious of what you frequently tend to dwell on or ponder?  Do you believe that you can even really control what you are thinking about?

Think for a second about the worst smell you have ever experienced.  Imagine exactly where it was and what it felt like.  Now try not to think about it at all.  I don't know about everyone else, but I find it to be nearly impossible to deliberately not think about something.  It always feels like my subconscious is one step ahead of me.  And to actually deliberately forget about something, I wouldn't even know where to start.

What we care about will dictate what we think about.  This will apply to both conscious and subconscious thoughts, but do we really have the freedom to choose what we care about?  I know I haven't really determined an answer to that question.  But if it is possible to control what we care about, I know that I haven't learned how to do that.

So what am I usually thinking about?  Well I guess we are going to find out over the next few months.  That is part of my purpose in writing all of this.  Over the last few months, much of my thought and contemplation has been directed towards questions about my future, and what I believe God wants me to do with it.  (Or more specifically: how he might want me to go about finding the answers to those questions.)  This has led me to read a lot of books, write much more that usual, and discuss my ideas with many people.  It will be interesting to see where that leads me.