Greetings Dear Reader,
Recently I found myself in a situation where my brain was
screaming for me to act in anger. Parts
of my personality that have been quelled for decades rose in me demanding to be
loosed with free rein. Instead I managed
to walk away through the thought of Christ and his grace.
The visceral reappearance of not just my anger but my very
violent young self, terrified me. I
spent most of the night battling that part of me and his sinister malevolence
back into submission. He posed some very
reasonable arguments as to why I should let him choose my path for a bit.
I do not use the term Christian to describe who I am. I do, however, wish to follow Christ. In that moment, through that night, I wished
nothing more than to find my way out of the anger and find again the path toward
home.
It has caused me to dwell deeply on what it is to be a
Christ follower in the cognitive realm. The
discipline of the mind is key to following.
The mind must rule the heart when pain or sorrow seeks to take one from
the path. The will must assert sound
reason over feelings when those feelings seek to betray what it means to be a
Christ follower.
For the sake of putting my darker self into more permanent exile,
I am going walk through what a Christ follower must be and do in the mind. I must think through this thinking. I could use some kind company Dear
Reader.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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Contacts for Aramis
Thorn:
Bookings at aramisthorn@aramisthorn.com
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