MORE THOUGHTS ON CONFOUNDING CONFUSION (4th in Series)

(These thoughts are added to each Monday and Thursday)

Nothing disrupts the disrupted influence of confused worry like love. The obscenity called hate certainly isn’t going to offer any solace in the middle of the night. It is easy enough to join another jackass and the two of you kick holes in the stable of life. To be a spiritual serial killer with a machine mouth, walking down lovers lane holding your own hands. There is no peace here…only the confusion of an individual who not only has a mad on with a great many people but has a mad on with self as well. And, yes, we human beings were made for better than this.
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What to do? Reprogram the answering machine of your heart so that it is not guilty of drive by mouthings.

It is always good to seek out a best or better example when talking about improving the living process. In this case, look at a man by the name of Methuselah. His example is well worth the study.

It is appropriate because he set a longevity record that has never been beaten. 969 years to be exact. Filled his years with more helping than hating. More patience than anger. Was a good Samaritan more often than a self-centered egomaniac. And yes…it not only prolonged his years but made them better years.

It has happened all through the ages. Take a man named Nero, Emperor of Rome. He sat on his throne hating himself and everyone around him, while an apostle named Paul refused to hate Nero though rotting in his jail. And who would chose to be a Nero rather than a Paul. Confusion might because…well, because confusion does things like that.

It all boils down to a belief system and what that belief system is all about. An ongoing revolution taking place in the living room of the heart. Not locking in sins. Not locking out God. Believing that the Almighty can take a pig of a person and turn him or her into a pearl of great price. Believing that no one can be perfect but everyone can be better. Believing that we are both body and soul. Biological and psychological. Both materialistic and spiritual. Believing that we have physical hungers and spiritual hungers and emotional hungers and that to deny any one of these is to aim in the direction of confusion as to who we are.

People are failure in life most often, not because they are stupid, but because they spend their lives being lukewarm. Because they spend their lives not on fire for anything. Because they waste their lives on the worthless until one day they lose the ability to recognize the worthwhile. It is one thing to see through a glass darkly. It is something else to be totally, terribly, and uncomprehendingly blind.

Call these thoughts Confusion Improvment 101. Call them what you will but remember that when we stumble and even if we fall; UP is still waiting for us to give it a chance to happen.