Meditations

It's been a bit wild in my mind for a while now. I think the pace of a mind is an important indicator of how smart someone is. It’s important in all those crisis moments to see and react well to new situations, to be able to see clearly in the midst of confusion. I’ve been constantly facing new situations and new information everyday and often I’m unsure about what to do. Sometimes there are ways to cheat. Without being smart there are two things I’ve found that work pretty well as a substitute: Focus and Preparation.
How does a mind see so clearly and decipher huge batches of new information? One way is to ignore all irrelevant thoughts and focus on the important things. The ability to not be distracted is one way to streamline the mind. The other thing is to have seen the new situation before through preparation. The first time someone does something, it’s always hard but after dealing with it a few times there is less of a problem and a mind that sees these situations and deals with them beforehand mentally will be more prone to deal with them in real time.
This is where mediations come in. To mediate is to focus your mind and in our Christian context I consider it a form of communing. In communing with God we begin to not only see him but see what he sees and so we get the purging of the irrelevant and the embracing of the realities that God sees that prepares us for what we are to face.
I look forward to my next mediation that much more.