If "think" means that you're dropping stones plink-plink-plink into the pond, and "meditate" means that you're floating belly-up somewhere out near the middle, then "ponder" is that big rock you drop kerplunk into deepest part of the lake, and watch as it sinks down to bottom.Tie a rope to that rock, and it'll anchor your canoe to the spot for a summer afternoon, if not for the entire season. It's not the length of time that matters to those who ponder, it's the depth of thought.
Pondering is a solitary process, best done in places that might be considered lonely, if we stopped to notice.
What is good? I have one thing, but want something else that I have no right to. How do I live like this?
If service means more when it is given than when someone compels it, then which is greater in the eyes of heaven: a rich man with many servants, or the servants who make soup in the kitchen?
Who am I? What is God?
And how is that the key to answering all these questions is "Who are you?"
Copyright © 2019 by David Learn. Used with permission.
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