Clay in the Hands

This may come as a surprise to those of you who have not read my ramblings until recently (those long time followers already know this about me) but I am a rocker at heart.  OK – the secret is out.  My typical music in the car is Christian rock, but every once in a while, I move to a station further up the dial and listen to some classic rock.  Yesterday, I was headed to watch a couple of our students play volleyball at the high school and the radio was set to the rock station.  A song came on by Queensryche that I recognized but had not really listened to closely before.  More or less the song dealt with escaping into a fantasy world where the singer was free of pain and struggle.

The words that struck me were these (actually the title of the song as well):  silent lucidity.

I don’t know why I was taken with this concept but I began to think about what that meant and how different the world might be if we were all a little more lucid in our thinking.   Lucidity is unhindered clarity of thought (my definition – but close to Webster’s).  What if our world was filled with folks with clear thinking?  It would be a better place.

We all have the capability of thinking more clearly – but our primary problem is that we spend very little time thinking at all.  Often, this is particularly true of our walk with Jesus.  Our lives are so filled with doing that the majority of us leave little time for thinking.  I am guilty of this each day.  I fill my calendar with good things but rarely do I include time to just think – to sit and listen for God’s promptings.

Today, take some time to strive for silent lucidity.  Pray that God would speak clearly to you today!