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change one degree
Change is movement along a curve or line over time. One degree broadens naturally for our benefit. Intention is an internal dialogue initiating care with ourselves, so the process begins.
This means outcome. The question is whether we have zero change, and never know or experience what an outcome would have been, or if we see potential opportunity to discover and build.
Change may come from enforcement due to personal crisis, born in turmoil. This has implications, e.g. during crisis we don’t understand what is going on, we react and “do things” not knowing if we have a genuine rudder to guide us as we are in survival mode.
If we learn to make realistic, simple adjustments now, we develop a sense of character and ability for the future, even in impossible situations. If our lives do not know about the process of change, perhaps due to fear or unawareness, what life-tools do we have apart from what is already in our “toolbox”.
Avoiding life’s problems does not stop them. A ship is easily wrecked. By contrast, one degree of change may determine life itself, or hope instead of yielding to defeat. This is not a theory of life, or a about teaching and philosophy, but is a landscape of future direction and your ownership rather than its absence.
birth of a decision is the change of one degree
It is what we act on that changes our lives. If we can grasp this, we have seen a truth. Decisions are like the seedling that breaks the topsoil. As an analogy, these are either fruit bearing or brambles, meaning decisions are either healthy and appropriate to our means at the time, or derived from somewhere else. A single decision now can open up a critical awareness ten years down the track.
We are not talking about reckless or unfounded decisions either. Poor decisions can show questionable fruit years down the track. If we ignore realities, material or spiritual, we learn and re-enforce how to turn away instead of change. We may excuse our conscience and beliefs with various methods, like faulty logic, learnt bias, emotional defense, personal anger, hostility or even misplaced faith.
Our internal responses to life are real. Often there are answers beyond our current view. What we notice in real life is that a portion of the population first manages a crisis to a degree, then either moves forward by pushing through incredibly difficult barriers or yields to the problem and gives up. There is no condemnation here. We know this pain, but awareness and open contact with others can make the necessary difference. If we ourselves push through impossible situations, we discover some pretty amazing things, being open to helping someone else’s cry. That is the exercise of real Christianity.
for my friends
If God exists, by default there is a higher moral position to turn with simple heart one degree towards God.
It is His job to bring yourself to Him through your singular act of free will in righteousness.
Our creation has two kinds of tangibles, those material with cause and effect, and those “unseen” that are perhaps more real – trust in God, faith, hope and righteousness.
Some folks do not know of these their whole life. Some learn later in life and are deeply sad at what they lost, but we have the promise that God makes all things new.