Sometimes My Mind is . . .

© Ruth Marlene Friesen

What is your mind like? Do you take it for granted mostly? Get sick, and you're soon begging God to give you your mind back.

There are many kinds of minds, and ways of using them. It's a fascinating study. But this is going to be a playful look.

Setting aside the management of the fruit of our minds - the words - let's look at the different ways I catch myself thinking. Do you have still other ways? I'd love to hear about them.

I wrote a poem for my 1996 Christmas Gift Chapbook, Heart 2 Heart. In it was a poem I'll share below, called, Sometimes My Mind is...

      Sometimes My Mind is...

Sometimes my mind is...
a lamb gamboling on frisky legs
all over the meadow of delightful ideas
for sheer gladness of living.

Sometimes my mind is...
a running dog on a leash;
I have to trot fast and pull back
as it plans and schemes with an obsession.

Sometimes my mind is...
a video camera, scanning, listening,
and recording conversations,
savoring and saving countless details.

Sometimes my mind is...
a film maker piecing a story,
backing up to splice in a scene,
or smiling - watching the adventure flow.

Sometimes my mind is...
blocked by a bully in the doorway,
and has to make herself a determined mouse
to dart past/between the headache's ankles.

Sometimes my mind is...
a jeweler, holding a thought to a glass,
looking for hidden flaws, cutting,
grinding and polishing it into a poem.

(c)1996 Ruth Marlene Friesen
First pub. in Heart 2 Heart, 1996.
(Asparagus Press) Available now as an e-Book from this site.

Do you catch yourself daydreaming and following your thoughts where they wander? Isn't that fun?

There are times when you are busy planning and scheduling your work, and other times when you are learning and analyzing all you take in.

What about when you are organizing and rearranging something you've created, until it is pleasing to your senses? Or when you have to find a resourceful solution to a problem, don't you try this, and then that, and search for another way, and try that, until you solve it? That is sure using your mind.

Refining a thesis, a poem, or an article takes considerable mental skills. Particularly, if you want others to understand and grasp it too.

All the above are functions of our minds. What a marvellous gift it is! The things we think, say or create with our minds can last a long time after our bodies decay and disappear. Some of them will survive throughout eternity. Awestruck yet!?

That's where we'll have to give an account of all those things. God wants our mind to serve our will, which is a function of our spirit, and if that is fully yielded to Him, there is no limit to the fantastic things we will think and do.

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