FollowBy Dan Amos
One of the rabbit trails in my head the other day had to do with a Dean Martin song. After work most days, I’ve been working on a home project for a few weeks, and I usually wear a set of Bluetooth hearing protection. They are great at blocking out tool noise and letting me listen to streaming media. I had been listening to comedy, but I didn’t like how it was affecting my thought patterns. I switched to listening to music from the ‘40s and ‘50s, and one song kept coming to me at other times. It wasn’t the song that was important, but it reminded me that what I put into my head is what ends up rattling around in there.
Paul made that point in his letter to the Philippians: “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”
I added sermons from another preacher to that playlist and found my thought patterns changing. I felt less stressed about work and life though there was lots of room for “less.” “More” was already used up. There’s nothing terribly profound here. I can just confirm from my own experience the wisdom of what has been revealed to us.
When the moon hits your eye
like a big pizza pie,
that’s amore.