The Practicals of Life

Greetings to you my dear reader,

A warm welcome to returning and new visitors to this blog. It's clear to see that I have not posted in a while ...as evidenced by the date of the last blog post before this one.

Today, I decided to share my thoughts with you by fire, by force. Okay,so maybe not by fire, force or any extreme means. The sun is out and I'm not sleepy so that was motivation enough.

Anyway let's get into the main body of the blog...

'Practicals of life'.

I find myself in a place where I'm more willing to exercise intentionality. That is being more of a doer than a sayer, dreamer, thinker what have you. Because of my state of mind and being, I can't but ask myself what I've been doing all these years. What was my state of mind in the past years? What was my motivation and what attitude did I have to life?

I figure it wasn't bad. But my life has taken a new orientation; that is a more practical approach to life. I am open to learning and putting into practice what I learn. Because of this, I feel I don't want to give myself to too much of what doesn't nourish me, things I may not use now or ever or stop listening when it doesn't seem useful at this time. 

In this season, I have been journalling more after reading the bible or after meditating on something that cross my mind and makes me draw an action point out of it. 

I make time to listen to what I feel will benefit me and after I listen, I think about how I will practice it. This verse comes to mind.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 1:22 NLT/ESV

Being practical is a good thing.

Let's look at it this way. Information is sometimes likened to food. Think of the phrase 'food for thought'. Too much exposure to some forms of resource, information or media is sometimes said to be overconsumption. For example: news articles have highlighted the impacts of overconsumption of tiktok, a form of social media binge. There's that food analogy there. Binge eating may just make one obese over time and when one wants to lose weight, one's primary tools are exercise and changing their diet. It takes an action to reverse the damage caused by receiving and consuming an unhealthy amount of something. 

That's how i feel right now. I feel God has blessed me with too much access to knowledge and advice via No Ordinary Life to keep to myself and primarily knowledge that needs to be used. 

There is more to say but I'm stopping here for now. I may continue this post another day. But before I go, can I ask you a question?

What season in life do you find yourself in? How are you living out this season? I hope you are Doing as much as you are hearing and learning.  

Till next time,

Happy Living 

Claudy xoxo