A Time To Think

        "This is a time of renewal, a time to plant, a time for the sun to shine with new vigor. With each beginning of a spring season, there is a lightening up of the spirit as the colder days become warmer and nature gives re-birth. It is a beginning and there is a newness at this time of the year. This year will be different. It will be a time to think deeply on many things. This is not something that the majority seems to find time for and as a result, many choices are eliminated. To change direction or to learn and also to gain wisdom, one must listen, learn, and think. It isn't like a shallow stream of water that goes by, but more like a deep lake or pond. We are well aware of the problems of finding time as the busy pace seems to increase with things to do.

        It appears, at times, almost impossible for people to find meditative time or even resting time. It's go, go, go. This is true in the more developed nations and the show of energy in productive ways is good, but there must be balance. How to carve out a block of time is not something that can be given, as no plan will fit all personalities. When do you do your best thinking? Is it at work and then you float on the way home or at home? How deeply do you look into your present attitudes and way of being. When was the last time you even were aware of the need for deeper thinking?

        Now is the time, before it is too late, to reveal the layers of your thoughts, to look at them and see if they are in the same pattern or have they changed? And how creative are your thoughts? We often get so caught up in 'figuring' that we don't give the mind a slightly different pace of thinking which allows new ideas to enter. Many of you are more multi talented than you know. Those talents just have not had time to 'surface'. If you cannot carve out a block of time, perhaps you can intend to think more in review of patterns, habits of behavior, and ideas long held. Clean house in your mind as some do with spring cleaning. Get out the cobwebs of old thought and let light in with new and refreshed thought, new insights, and new creative ideas. Peace be to you."