Tumblers of Your Mind

“I remember during the first month after he died, lying awake in bed, staring at the ceiling and hearing his voice return to me. Bits and pieces of conversations between us from years past were now coming back and falling into place like tumblers to a safe, unlocking as the right combination turned. Why, I asked myself, were they falling into place now? Why did I remember just these memories and not a lifetime of others? But most of all, why did it NOW mean so much to me to try and put them in order?

He knew me all too well. Everything had its place with him. Every word was a seed to him, and every seed had its time…”

-From his personal daily log- 5:00pm, Men, Like Trees

Have you ever said to yourself, “Where on earth did that thought come from?”

When I review the greatest decisions I’ve made in the course of my life, for good or bad, they always began with a thought, “out of nowhere”. Sure, every day I plan my schedule, my thoughts of “to do’s” for the week or month… or even what I hope to do the next five years. But I’m referring to the ones that seem to get planted from somewhere else…

…from someone else…like they’re turning the tumblers of my mind, and I can faintly hear the click and feel the drag, as my spirit taps my heart saying, “Pay Attention to this!”

Daniel 4:16 “And let his mind be changed…”

I think we ALL have felt and heard these very faint “tumblers”. But have dismissed their fragility as easily as a gentle breeze. But I deeply encourage you to “pay attention” to a thought that “comes out of nowhere”, (to unlock the safe), and that you ponder on

…The Tumblers of Your Mind.

“As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.” Proverbs 23:7