Commitment to Writing

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 I am committing to write and post on my blog every week and post Thursday night by 9. It's 9:40 ish, but that's still in the 9:00 hour. This is my post and thought for the week:

I'm also recognizing when I go through crisis on my identity and mission and purpose in life it is for one of two reasons, but they are both the result of this behaving with emotional based thinking rather than reality based thinking.

1- I am judging harshly the life of another, their fitness as a parent, citizen, spouse, leader, ect.

2- I am admiring the life of another, and determine since they are living a life with such fulfillment I must need to live a life just like them to also experience the same fulfillment.

Both of which are incredibly narrowminded, black and white, and lacking in the dynamic understanding of living in a life in color, organically developing all along the way. However, powerful to recognize so I can move forward from where I am,

This is all over the place but what am I basically trying to say?

Perhaps this. I feel emotion. But when I make choices for my life based simply in emotion, I am a hot mess and completely loose any direction. I also am capable of reality based thinking. But when I think only in reality I miss out on the joy to be felt in life because I stick so rigidly to something that all feeling is squelched out and I become a driving, past feeling monster (mostly to my family). So what is the solution here?

Heart and Mind. Seeking the Lord and his wisdom, studying it out in mind and heart, and moving forward in harmony. Bring the Love and the Logic. We need both. As the Lord said to his servant Oliver Cowdery:

D&C 8:2 "Yea, behold, I will tell you in your mind and in your heart, by the Holy Ghost, which shall come upon you and which shall dwell in your heart."

Reason can lead to revelation, but it can not replace it.

Feeling can guide us to a good path, but put in the driver seat they can lead astray.

Praise the Lord I am learning this. Now just to remember.

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