Even though I do express some of my concerns through my blog, most of my passions remain unpublished. Passions should usually remain private because of the passiveness embedded within. No matter how much someone might examine or re-examine their thoughts, there will always be some remnant of prejudice yet remaining.

Voting is a choice and who gets elected results from choices made. People like having a sense of control over their destiny. The most repulsive thought to most would be knowing that God sovereignly controls everything and everyone. What’s an abhorrence to some, can be peace for others.

I can’t be the only person who finds comfort in knowing that God ultimately rules over everything man does. Sovereignty is a complex subject that’s impossible to understand without God’s spirit to enlighten the mind. The bottom line is that it’s either going to make a person feel angry or calm.

How many people can enjoy God’s serenity in situations they can’t control? How many even know about this part in Reinhold Niebuhr’s famous prayer:  ?

“Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it; 
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;”

No one other than God can direct thoughts.¹ People say what they will, hoping that their words are almighty. Most of the time, people don’t even realize that what they write or say can be actually having the opposite effect. Usually they are the ones who are so sure of themselves that they don’t even think (or care?) about what impact they’re having.

Whatever man might will, God must appoint it to be. No ruler is independently able bring his own purposes to pass even though it may seem he has all things at his command.

“The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.” — Proverbs 21:1 (King James Version)

“Just as water is turned into irrigation ditches, so the Lord directs the king’s thoughts. He turns them wherever He wants to.” — Proverbs 21:1 (The Living Bible)

¹Even though God permits Satan to do evil in this world, God is not to be blamed for it. God ‘owes’ no one anything.

I know those kids mean, “Get your own life!” Then I ask, “How does someone steal another person’s life?” Identities get stolen, but how does one acquire another person’s life? Even if s/he took the life of another human being by murdering him or her, s/he can’t absorb the recent victim’s life to have it replace her or his own.

We can waste parts of our life by not utilizing our talents to serve our purpose here on earth. Take me for example. Surely I must be wasting a section of my life and yours (assuming you’re still reading this) here and now by writing what I am, especially when it’s an absolutely gorgeous day outdoors (cold, but with bright Finn colors—blue and white)? But how do you or I know that my purpose here on earth isn’t to use my talent for making people think?

Whose decision is it to tell me what to make people think about? It’s my decision when what other people do, because of their lack of thought, affects my life. It’s my duty to affect the lives of other people. We’re all doing it anyhow . . . some unconsciously, some consciously.

So, who would disagree with the logic that since everyone is having an effect upon others around them, everyone should increase their awareness of what effect they are having upon those others? If they don’t care, then that means we, who are being affected by the I Don’t Give A Crap About You Syndrome folks, need to make up for their deficiencies. Maybe that’s why I feel like people think I care too much about how other people think. Why do I think that? Because there must be some reason for people often telling me I analyze things too much. Those are the ones who aren’t analyzing things enough (especially their own self behavior and thoughts).