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God Has A Lot To Say About Your Brain

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Oh, my! Oh my! If Only I Had A Brain. I would feed only one side!

In the beginning, GOD…Whom has always provided the subject matter for my weekly blogs has done it again. But this time, more vividly.

Suddenly, while meditating on a few memorable life experiences concerning my relationship with the Holy Spirit, a big expandable smile began forming all across my face. I imagined I heard a still small voice whisper extremely softly, ‘Blog about me‘. The unction came from out of my heart, into my head, wrapped itself around my mind and flooded my brain. The final punch line of this thought was ‘my child, you’ve got the sequence all wrong. This thought has come directly from your heavenly Father!’

“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, (Philippians 2:5)

Wow, I thought. What a revelation!

In 2018, I had formed a creative writer’s club at my senior-living apartment resident. One of the courses I facilitated was entitled “Writing With The Right Or Left Side Of Your Brain“. But, from the start, I informed the class that one word we would sparingly use was “Creative” to describe what we were all about. Why? I explained that the word “Creative” also brings along with it three more “C” words that are deadly, namely; CRAP, CRITICISM, and CONSTIPATION. Said another way, it instills pride and despair. None of these postures are helpful if you want to have fun at producing readable and entertaining work.

So, when the Holy Spirit prompted me to blog about the First Person of the Holy Trinity (God), I sat at my desk in awe…filled with admiration, humility and wonderment. I prayed; “Oh brain, don’t fail me now, cuz I know how you function.

Left Brain Right Brain Wallpapers - Wallpaper Cave
Left Brain Functions
Academic and logical
Controls the left side of the body		Mirror Image of your two-part Brain Right Brain Functions
Artistic and creative.
Controls the Left side of the body.
Babies are born using the Right side of their brain.
Analytic thoughtArt awareness
LogicCreativity
LanguageImagination
Reasoning (*)Intuition
Science and mathInsight (*)
WrittenHolistic thought
Numbers skillsMusic awareness

Perfectionist		3-D forms
Right-hand controlLeft-hand control

The Moral Of The Story:

So, as the Holy Spirit guided me along a path that allowed me to receive a deeper understanding of the functions of the brain. All I can say is Thank You, God. Thank you for creating mankind with a two-part brain. God knew from the beginning that Adam and Eve (plus mankind) would need skill sets for both the Garden of Eden and the New World. The Garden of Eden offered free ‘getting'(*). The banishment of Adam and Eve out into the world would cost them something.

I now refer to the Right side of the brain as Knowledge. (Expensive)

I refer to the Left side of the brain as Wisdom. And Wisdom is free. (Bargain)

(*) NOTES – EXAMPLES BELOW

A person knows (Left Brain) a Lake of water is deep. A person doesn’t realize (Right Brain) how deep the water is until he or she is drowning.

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God’s Creatures…Great and Small

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“As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for You, O God…etc., etc., etc.” (Psalm 42:1a)

Hello, my dear friends, newbies, followers and all other curious souls who have landed on this week’s blog post from Conversations With God Using Scripture. The Holy Spirit put it into my heart to share with you an amusing incident that I witnessed a few years ago while looking out of my office widow in my home. It concerned the antics of a squirrel.When a person tries to truly live close to God similarly how I strive to do, you cannot help but seek Biblical signs of His approval.

So, the first thing I did as I smiled and recalled the squirrel incident in my mind, I began to search the internet for free pexil (pictures) images of squirrels searching for food. You see, for quite a long time I had been staring out the window watching a single squirrel running back and forth along the top of my wooden backyard fence, pausing at a large tree planted just a few feet within my yard. The squirrel would look up at the first branch on the tree that just happened to have a bird feeder plate hanging on it.

The squirrel would sit there staring up at the tree a few minutes, then quickly retrace his running exercise back and forth along the top of my wooden fence. The squirrel repeated this exercise about 5 or 6 times, then suddenly disappeared.

I sat there staring out of my window and I thought to myself…Oh, little squirrel, please don’t give up. Then, I recited a prayer: “Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?  Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? ” (Matthew 6:27, 27)

I was shocked at what I witnessed next! For along the top of my fence came running 2 little squirrels heading for that tree. Suddenly they stopped, took one look at each other, then they both sprang for the base of the tree and scampered up towards the bird feeder. They took one last look at each other, than sprang for the side corners of the base of the bird feeder. The two squirrels began to pumped the bird feed into a swinging motion until all of the bird seed fell to the ground. They both actually ‘flew‘ back onto the trunk of the tree…scampered down the side of the fence, reached the ground and dined sufficiently!

My friends have a problem believing me when I retell this amazing event. It was the most comical thing I had ever witnessed. I’m going to be sure I retell this event to all my family and friends when I get to the Promise Land.

My Prayer:

Heavenly Father, I long for Your presence in my life as a deer and the squirrels thirst for water and food. Thank You that I can and have experienced Your closeness every day and that my relationship with You can grow stronger and stronger even as I witness your miraculous feats among the least of thees.

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Metal Squirrel Baffle for 4*4 Wooden Pole