To Wisely YES and NO is one of our greatest needs to know about and within which to function. If each would only YES the right, and say NO to the wrong, life would be great.
Life is a succession of decisions. This is the core logic of a computer’s operating system and which operates in what is called DOS, which stands for ‘Digital Operating System’. This computer operates in a process that is based upon an answer being YES or NO. DOS cannot make a decision based upon ‘maybe’ or ‘might’ be.
This reminds us of our court’s legal system, where a witness is to simply answer yes or no to a question in the interrogation process. Every question has either a right or wrong answer. Every person needs to make decisions the same way. But history and everyday living reveals that this is the basis of man’s problem from the beginning of time. Man is a procrastinator. We put off making decisions that need to be made in the ‘now’ and not ‘later.’
I am being greatly moved daily by people’s words of thanks and comments re LIFE MATTERS. These comments are of great encouragement, which reveal to me that my writing is meeting a need. In these personal encounters with people, and if time permits, I ask the person to share with me what they wish they had come to know earlier in their life. Their answers are of great interest to me, and bring forth new LIFE MATTERS about which to write. Many times, their story simply upholds what I have come to learn.
So, beyond all about which I write, I hope that it enables people to think outside of their box of perceptions, of that which they know, for that is truly what life is all about – leaving where we are in order to be and do what we can become. Life is so vast, so multi-leveled and is being lived simultaneously in multiple realms. This is the reason that the ‘Life Equation’ [L = E N X, over CHOICE/RESULTS] provides a way, a structure and a science for perceiving and understanding life. Every person’s ‘present moments’ are so filled with dynamic intensity, overwhelming us to the point that makes life to be confusing and difficult to know what is going on.
This weekend is going to be a perfect example of what life is like. As fireworks are set off, may these remind you of the explosions of every day and living in the moment. Like the fireworks’ effects, we are constantly being effected and reacting to all that is going on. All the noise and sights after a while cause us to ask, when will this end? There is more to life than thrill and fireworks. We get hooked on these, yet wind up empty of blessing and true satisfaction in life. In essence, we are looking for X to give us E and N answers. It reminds me of a song I wrote earlier in my life, “I’ve been looking in all the wrong places for all the good things in life?”
How desperately we need to know what life is all about so that we can YES the right matters and say NO to that which would keep us from the right. E, eternality, is where to look for all the good things in life. So, start thinking within Eternality as well as Nternality and Xternality.
Man is created with “thinking skills.” Why? So that we can think because, as a person thinks, so they are. To YES right, we must THINK right. This will help life to be more than a “fire-cracker” event.
Bill Sutter is a Carthage Press columnist from Carthage. His occupation is “Faith Walker.”
