Scribbled Notes

In an attempt to decipher some scribbled notes, these things emerged:

Some things change and some things don’t. The trick in life is to figure out which is which. Locked down rigidity narrows life to a razor’s edge. Anything goes often abandons principle. Discerned wisdom is never in the half-priced aisle.

Some things are worth fighting for, but some things aren’t. Not every fire is three-alarm. Thinking like a child, reasoning like a child, acting like a child is for children. Some things have to go in order for new things to grow.

It takes courage to live by faith, not to talk about it, but to live by it. Talk is cheap. Faith costs. Some of us are great conversationalists.

It has been said that fighting the riptide current is a sure way to lose your life. But, if you float with the current instead of fighting it, there’s a good chance you’ll be around to swim another day. One way is struggle; the other way is surrender. Life is not just sink or swim…it’s also float.

The great river, wide and deep, that runs to the sea is fed by many little streams, each bringing its contribution of water. By the time the river breaks into the sea, many waters have become one and the sea welcomes its return.

Just because it tastes good, it may not be good for you. Just because everybody does it, that doesn’t make it right. In order to be yourself, you have to know yourself.

Deciding is not the same as discerning. I decide; the Spirit and I discern. Big difference.

Scribbled notes are sometimes revealing, if you can still read your writing. Press on into this good day. Make some notes.