Hold your head high
Sit securely on your perch
Knowing that any minute
You can choose to fly
E.A. Fussell
1/16/2019
Hold your head high
Sit securely on your perch
Knowing that any minute
You can choose to fly
E.A. Fussell
1/16/2019
Orange
You’re the one
January’s primary color
To focus on
A color full of fun
What will you teach me
What will we do
How will you taste, feel, smell
Where will we end up
One never can tell
E.A.Fussell
01/12/2018
Learning how to block time
Each day
And focus on one thing
One specific life intention
One aspect of work
One area of self improvement
Easier said than done
This focusing on just one
Theory says
Great gains can be made
In a short amount of time
If we focus on one thing
Set aside distractions
Dedicate our mind
To thinking on one thing
Dedicate our body
To practicing one thing
Theory says
That’s how experts
Become experts
Ignoring distractions
Pushing them
Out of the way
To focus on one thing
For a specific period of time
Each and every day
It has been my experience
Focusing on just one
Is easier said than done
E.A. Fussell
01/12/2019
Have you ever taken a verse with you throughout the year? Pondering it, meditating on it, studying it? Looking up each individual word in the verse? Thinking about the time in which it was written? Analyzing every aspect of it, culturally, philosophically, emotionally? Reciting it daily? Living it?
This will be my first year doing that. The idea may not be new to you but it just came into my conscious thought this morning. As an eclectic reader many genres cross my path, however, Bible study is consistently on my current reading list.
My 2019 verse is from the King James Bible (authorized version of 1611). When the initial thought occurred, the task of choosing one scripture from 23,145 verses seemed like a challenging task, formidable even.
Thankfully, and interestingly, the verse chose me. The Holy Spirit presented it to me, or the universe conspired to put the right thought followed a few moments later by the right verse in front of me, or the angels assigned to me know what I need to focus on this year and made sure it came into my consciousness. Any one, or all, of these things could be true.
Each year it seems my mind has gotten busier, racing from thought to thought, topic to topic. Focusing on one thing has become more difficult. There is so much information readily available via the printed word, audio, and the World Wide Web. Accumulating and layering the information by reading, listening, searching is easy; absorbing the information, not so easy. Absorbing requires focus, lack of distraction, commitment, conscious thinking, sub-conscious programming, dedication, discipline.
Distractions are so plentiful and often very subtle, to the point that we don’t even realize we are being distracted. Then suddenly the year is gone and we didn’t get to half of the things on our todo list, or even fully absorb one thing.
Absorbing one verse throughout the entire year, focusing on it daily without distractions, is that even possible to accomplish in this world?
When God speaks we should listen. He speaks to us in so many ways but we usually don’t, can’t, even hear Him because we are distracted. This time His direction was clear: continue to study and take one verse with you throughout 2019; a few minutes later the verse was revealed to me.
Romans 12:9 will be my 2019 scripture verse. This morning documentation began as I read Bullinger’s reference notes and appendixes, looked up each word using Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, pondered my dad’s interpretation of the verse and formed my own initial interpretation of how the verse applies to my life right now.
The understanding of how perfect this verse is for me at this moment in time confirmed that the conscious thought of taking a verse with me throughout the year, followed by a specific verse being revealed, all came from my Creator. It always delights my soul that God knows me so well and reaffirms my belief that He wants an intimate personal relationship with each one of us.
Taking this verse with me on my daily journey through the next year will challenge my commitment and test my obedience. It is a simple yet complex verse that can have impacts of great magnitude, IF it is absorbed through focus and dedication.
Time will tell.
Happy New Year!
E.A. Fussell
1/1/2019
Romans 12:9 KJV
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Wisdom
Where do you hide
Heart aches
Choices Made
Dreams gone
Three hearts
Unbeknownst
Two hearts joined
One heart left alone
To ponder
Should it feel pain
Wisdom, where do you hide
One heart spreads its wings
Searching
Pondering
Seeking
Wisdom, where do you hide
One mind awakens
Understanding comes
Unbeknownst
Yes, that is the key
One heart finally rests
In full knowing
Destiny has played out
Wisdom has arrived
E.A. Fussell
12/30/2018
There is a distant voice
Calling
It gets louder
As I get older
Calling
Do not settle
Do not conform
Calling
Love with abandon
Live with passion
Calling
Stay free
Enjoy each experience
Calling
Seek wisdom
Disregard skeptics
Calling
Take risks
Do not fear pain
Calling
You were created for this moment
Do not let it pass in vain
E.A. Fussell
12/28/2018
Ponder this:
Our central nervous system
A mass of impulses and messages
Flowing constantly
Processing information at warp speed
Connected to the eyes
Can be effected by environment
Media bombards us
With negative images
Evoking an imbalance
In the ratio of our sense preceptors
By overloading us
With negative information
The media changes the ratio
Of our sense preceptors
When sense ratios change
People change
Bombarded by negative information
We become more negative
As individuals, as a society, as a nation
But remember
When sense ratios change
People change
What might happen if
We turned off the media
And took for ourselves
A few minutes
During our waking hour and
Prior to sleep
To gaze at images which inspire us
And listen to music that moves us
And think on things pure and lovely
And fill our central nervous system
With positive information
That we dream on and awaken to
If we did this for a day, week, longer
What might happen to us
As individuals, a society, a nation?
E.A. Fussell
12/24/2018