Thinking, thinking, thinking …
Pooh Bear. He’s cute. What does he say when he’s upset?
“Oh bother”
I have been trying to make some changes to this template today, and I can’t get anything done, due to Blogger problems. How much is this REALLY a problem, or just a ploy to make the free bloggers get Blogger Pro? Hmmmm?
Oh bother.
It’s my dear husbands birthday today. He’s officially older than me by two years now, just for another week though. Edging closer to middle age is really coming to mind for me lately. I struggle with that “feeling young inside” but knowing I’m getting older, and that it won’t be too many years before 40 and beyond!
When I was a small child I thought anyone in their 30’s was old. Ha! That’s so funny now!
Well, having young children when you are in your 30’s tends to keep you younger. Others my age have teens to adults as children. Yikes! We still have diaper duty in the house, and hope for another round or two of them actually.
Speaking of diapers, we use cloth. We didn’t for our first, and I wanted to use them for his second year, just never got to it. Our second baby was over a year old when I finally started using cloth. I’ve never wanted to go back to disposables. Disgusting things.
I mostly use Mother-Ease snap on diapers. They are made from Terry-cloth and are a dream to use. I do have some prefolds, and some Aussie square nappies. These are really neat, but pins are needed and I am not so good at pinning. I don’t HAVE to pin, since we have snap diapers. An occassional pinned diaper takes 5 or 10 minutes to get right. I enjoy them once in awhile. Just once in a while, mind you.
Well baby is getting older and pinning a diaper on isn’t as fun as it used to be. He’ll be two in September. Time sure flies! Yep, back to the “I’m getting old!” ideas.
It’s no fun to wake up in the morning when you don’t want to. Oh for the days of summer, when it was only me I had to worry about!
Actually, I’d not like that either. I hated summer ending, and school beginning. The ONLY thing I like about that was getting brand new pencils, book covers, notebooks, filler paper, binders, pens, etc. I remember back in the late 70’s the MEAD corportation came out with these neat things with snaps and flaps and stuff … really blah notebooks compared to what’s out there today! LOL!
Well, I’m just not a morning person. Never have been, except in cases of something going on … like a trip, or planning to buy something new that morning, but if it’s an every-day-like-day I’m like a rock that is half- human-conscienceness, and slowly becoming a person for real. Coffee REALLY helps!
So, what is a bouncing brain? In my case, a 2.3 on the scale, focusing is not the same for me as it is for most people. For the “most” part, normal people shift in and out of focusing on things at will. It’s like breathing to them. They know what it’s lik for them, and that is that. Everyone has the same capability, right?
Oops, no, that’s not true! So then, is anyone that is different a “deviation”? A defective person? Some think so. They want to “fix” the mind that bounces around, to be like “them”. It’s fine to be “normal” and focus like a “normal” person if that is who you are. But what if you are different? That’s just it, it’s just a different way of looking at things, interacting with things, being. Today’s societies have exasperated many bouncing brains … fast moving, instant everything. These things are not the cause of differing attention spans … These fast ways are here because of technology. Technology is the thing, not the people who “don’t fit in” oft times.
Hyper-focus and Hypo-focus are the two key phases a 2.3 deals with. Either UP or DOWN. Sustained UP or sustained DOWN when something is highly interesting, or extremely uninsteresting, for example. How does this work out in a “school setting”? Hmmm. Often it’s not good. Are these people un-able to learn, or have limited learning abilities? Usually not! Usually these kind of people are smart, highly intelligent, or even geniuses! They learn in the right setting for them.
A child must be taught to learn to read, and love it. To love learning. To love exploring. I am so thankful that God allowed me to get through school with the ability to love learning, in spite of the bad things I ran into. So, how do I learn? I find something interesting and jump onboard and get to speed on the subject as fast as I can. Do I decide what to get into? Generally, no. It “just happens”. When I HAVE to learn something on purpose, it can be difficult, if it’s not interesting to me, it’ll be a battle. That said, a course of study that is interesting will be a joy to be in. (This is how I’m developing the education of my children.)
Is it then, just a matter of the Will? No, I can honestly say from personal experience it is not something that has anything to do with “the Will” of man. There are standards that some try to say are universal, in focusing and attaining to a certain way of thinking. These people don’t understand what it’s like to be a 1.3 or a 2.2 or a 3.1, etc. To have a hyper-focus ability is really, really, cool. I am happy with the way mine works. That’s not to say my life is wonderful, through and through, all the time. Of course it isn’t, I’m human, just like the rest of you out there. I have my hypo-focus times, and they can be bad. From these highs and lows I am made up–not from just one end of the spectrum. I can really appreciate the things God shows me in my life journey.
That’s not to say that you, possibly a normal person, can’t enjoy your life as that normal person. God made each of us a certain way. Learn to LIKE how you are. And don’t think everyone has to be just like you! I’d not like everyone to be just like me. I like being me, and interacting with other types of people. We all compliment each other!
There’s a little bit of A.D.H.D. behaviour in everyone these days. Of course, technology produces behaviours that are similar to what is called ADHD. The key is
I really understand it all pretty well now. Just like I thought all along, I’m not deficient in anything. I’m a bouncing brain!
I have nothing to say about this but that. It’s ridiculous!
Guardian Unlimited Observer | International | Earth ‘will expire by 2050’
Mark Townsend and Jason Burke
Sunday July 7, 2002
The Observer
Earth’s population will be forced to colonise two planets within 50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the current rate, according to a report out this week.
A study by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), to be released on Tuesday, warns that the human race is plundering the planet at a pace that outstrips its capacity to support life.
In a damning condemnation of Western society’s high consumption levels, it adds that the extra planets (the equivalent size of Earth) will be required by the year 2050 as existing resources are exhausted.
The report, based on scientific data from across the world, reveals that more than a third of the natural world has been destroyed by humans over the past three decades.
Well, church went well today. The first service was great, great hymns and great sermon. It was the last in a short series on the offices of Elder and Deacon. We will be selecting men to apply for the offices in the next month, then voting as a congregation. Our church votes by household.
We had dinner all together, then the traditional evening service was held right after dinner, to make for a long day, but not the long day of going to church, then home, then back to church. It was just go to church … then home 🙂
The children all napped during the second service … which was fine. It was on Revelation 18. Going through Revelation for awhile now. It’s not a scary book to study, or non-understandable, as so many Christians think it is. Moderate Preterism, or Partial Preterism. A.D. 70 Fall of Jerusalem. Those terms can be used to clue one in on what we believe about Revelation 😉
Getting back to my previous thinking … when I published instead of posting–therefore losing my words …
Christians fall into two camps, generally speaking, those who want to follow Christ in everything, and those who think that salvation is enough and they can do whatever they want. Of course there are degrees in each camp, differences of what is believed. Still the two sides are fine for this discussion.
In our church, as reformed as it is (and it is very solidly reformed) there exist problems with the issue of Modesty. “Problems” is a plural word, and this is the right way to use it, referring to Modesty. There are many things about the issue that keep people from understanding it, or practicing it in a Biblical manner.
One thing is Christian Liberty — being against Legalism. Well, Legalism is a heart issue. Some one who adheres to the Law in the legalist fashion is generally doing so to attain, or to help attain, salvation. This cannot work. Salvation is through Christ alone. Our works avail us nothing but wrath on their own.
So, some Christians say “I have the liberty to dress however I want to,” and they do just that. Often looking like hookers, and men too. Little boys and girls can dress indecently also, it’s not just the adults or just the adult women, you know.
The “liberty” card is pulled out frequently to justify actions. What does Paul say about it? In Romans 6 he begins by saying “Shall we continue to sin that grace may abound?” What does he say next? Nothing short of “Certainly not!” or in the KJV “God forbid!”. Indeed!
If it feels risque … that should tell you something. If you feel even just the inkling of a rebellious joyousness … sit down and think about it, pray about it, and honestly look at it. Odds are, it’s sinful, but you were “wanting” to do it, and “saying” that you could do it, when in fact deep down you know that God has standards, and this was above His standards. Or should we really say ” …below His standards!”
Ah, standards. The stumbling block for those who see the points of dressing modestly, but say “We can’t set standards!” Thoughts of dressing in ugly, big clothing abound.
Our church is a reformed Presbyterian church. Our pastor is great. He expounds the Word of God so well. We follow the RPW, or Regulative Principle of Worship. We sing from the Psalter, but also from the Hymnal. Our minister goes through the Bible, a book at a time. Though it’s so thorough, for when in a service, you’ll be flipping the pages of your Old and New Testaments back and forth, here and there … learn alot this way!
Some people don’t like the RPW. Well, they don’t go to our church where they can see how good it really is. High Church, I’ve been to those kind of services. I really, really like them … but they offer more emotional experience than true worship … I find that our church experience is much more theologically sound, now that we have the RPW as a form.
What did I do? I wrote this WONDERFUL post. And then hit the “publish” button. I didn’t “post” it, or “post & publish” it. No. I just published it. AUGH!
Bread is made, roast is nearly done. We are going to have some of the roast for dinner tonight, and take the rest to church for dinner tomorrow. It’s so nice to be able to streamline events like this!