While I’m Thinking about It

All along I thought I was having “senior moments.” This past week a friend told me that he didn’t have “senior moments,” but rather suffered from “intellectual interruptions.” Since I’ve had this problem long before I became a senior, I think I like the new term better. Whether your memory lapses are “senior moments” or “intellectual interruptions” or “losing the train of thought” or “drawing a blank” as my grandfather used to call it, the key is to re-focus. The mind is a wonderful gift from God, but it’s a lot like that machine at the Cleaners that takes my shirts around and around the building – when a shirt is missed, I must wait for it to come back around. Thoughts are similar, but the older one gets the slower that machine runs. The Bible tells us to use our minds to focus on “whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report . . .” So, while I’m thinking about it, I want to “think on these things” (Phil. 4:8). Would you join me this week – as you remember to do so?