This thing called.....LOGIC...or was it____.

     A few changes occurred on our front porch this week in lieu of all the harsh winter storms. It was painting that took center stage this week, the kind of painting that only a mad man would undertake. Which neither rain nor sleet nor freezing temperatures could stop. It was a week full of passion and pressing against the odds to survive. I had this burning in my gut to accomplish some things around the house and I did not care what was in my way, I was going to get them done and behind me! Yes, I know you shouldn't paint when the temperature outside gets below fifty degrees, or when the moisture levels are high from all the rain, when it's dark outside and you can barely see, or when you first wake up and climb out of bed. But not this week, I had things to get done, nor was it about showing off because I don't think anybody even cared what I was doing. It was all about moving and checking off things on my list of unfinished tasks, because any one of them might halt progress from the process I was going through at the time this all was unfolding.

     No, I'm not packing boxes just yet but I am seeing signs of movement in the air all around me. Maybe even a gut feeling that things are coming my way but I just can't see it today. "What??? Are you crazy, you sound ridiculous!" That is exactly what everyone keeps saying to me with their silent glares and their cutting remarks. But the over confident know it all's believed that the Titantic would never sink too! And it sank on it's very first voyage.

     Have you ever noticed that there are brief moments in your own life that logic and deductive reasoning are worthless; when what you see, hear, and experience do not match up with either one and you are left to wonder what to do next??? Welcome to my life right now, where neither reasoning or logic work, all they do is get in the way of experiencing peace and joy! How do you explain this to others who never step outside of these two thoughts? The answer: "VERY CAREFULLY!" But they still want listen because their minds are locked up! So you just do it any way and let them stand back and watch you work. "IT'S THAT SIMPLE!" Why does it have to be so awkward losing logic and deductive reasoning in place of excepting illogical stimulus as truth?

     Lets use an example to understand the root of this problem: Logic works like a freight train. You have a locomotive engine, some cars and then a caboose, all connected together one behind the other. You see a locomotive coming straight at you and you conclude that it's a whole train with cars and a caboose. And most of the time this works but it limits your thinking to only see what you have already experienced. Does that make any sense??? Well, what's happening is; in this example, the observer is shortening the process of information and arriving at a conclusion prematurely because you want to get finished fast and move on to the next step!!! And the logical thinker would say "it works, so why fix it?" while never seeing the bigger issue under the current of simply just solving the problems like everyone else does. Because the bigger issue is the fact that this way of seeing and thinking over time and practice "establishes a memory boundary or habit" which limits your capacity to interact with your environment unless it has already happened. In short you are blind, circumstantially blind but none the less blind in an area by learned and rewarded behavior. You no longer see things as they are. You have convinced yourself that you have everything under control, aka "you know it all."

Can you begin to see the foolishness of logic and deductive reason left alone and rarely ever checked? See just because it works does not mean it is always beneficial! Scary but true. Not all things in life are intended to be taken in at lightening speed. For instance: children, marriage, a lovers first kiss, asking a girl out for the first time, watching the wind blow through the trees, walking barefoot in the mud and feeling it squeeze up between your toes, rubbing a horses nose, or watching a butterfly float around aimlessly in the air. All of these experiences deny logic and yet they represent timeless moments to be felt and not so much understood!!!

Logic throws experience away as a useless waste of time because to the logical mind; love is just a word not a multi-layered phenomenon.

Clearly it's black and white this thing love! Pour out your logical reasoning skills with the mop water and begin to love again, to live again!!!