
If you fail to stop and think, the locusts of time descend upon you and distract you from yourself and your loves, devour your every peaceful moment, and create a world at war.
But the people with the best lives take time to think. Thinking is a choice, you see.
You have no control over busy bugs until you stop and think. When you sit down to deliberate, your mind becomes your own. The locusts cannot enter in because your house is occupied, and you’ll be busy with a world of your own creation. You won’t notice the tapping at your windows, for you’ll be deep within your own realm, the kingdom where you rule.
If you choose to stop and think, you choose to contemplate, ruminate, daydream, meditate, pray and solve all the world’s problems in your mind. You’ll actually know what you’re talking about, and you’ll recognize in an instant when someone doesn’t. A peaceful, prosperous life will fill your days, your family and the world.
When you choose to think, you also choose what you think. You make a list of things on your mind and you prioritize them: A for loves, the important; B for all the things that ought to be done, need to be done; and C for everything else. Then, in your mind, you clearly see yourself sweep all the C’s into the trash bin. They’ll never get done, so why worry about them.
If you choose to stop and think, you choose to contemplate, ruminate, daydream, meditate, pray and solve all the world’s problems in your mind. You’ll actually know what you’re talking about, and you’ll recognize in an instant when someone doesn’t. A peaceful, prosperous life will fill your days, your family and the world.
When you choose to think, you also choose what you think. You make a list of things on your mind and you prioritize them: A for loves, the important; B for all the things that ought to be done, need to be done; and C for everything else. Then, in your mind, you clearly see yourself sweep all the C’s into the trash bin. They’ll never get done, so why worry about them.
When Martha complains about
all her B’s, you - Mary - you laugh and enter your house, which is already swept clean
and the sunshine beams in through the windows, and bid her come for tea.
Then you occupy your life with the A’s. Do what you love, for that is the only thing that is important.
- Christopher Aune
- Christopher Aune