Niquey in Thought

 *      *    * If your life is in slow motion or not going the way you want, Or maybe you’re making progress in exactly the wrong direction, or some random direction, or… —wait how did we get here again?— It might be that you need to check the program. At my office, I occasionally have to do a lot of scanning. And it used to be that only one computer had the printer’s specific scanning software. But it so happened that that computer was usually unavailable. So I was always using the other computers that only had Windows Fax and Scan. I’m not even kidding when I tell you, it was like 5 seconds between scanning each page through the feeder. I thought this was just a dumb butt printer that had a terrible design. Then one day I ended up installing another new printer of the same type on my boss’s computer. Installing the software was so easy, I was like, “I’ll install the software on all the others.” My main motivation was I wanted to be able to batch scans int...

  *          *          * We don’t know anything. I’m convinced that the sooner we accept and believe that, the sooner we’ll begin on the road to knowing more than 99% of the people out there. Because 99% of people know enough to keep them comfortable and limited, trapped in the bounds of the “societal norms.” When we come to the realization that our knowledge is less than a speck of what can be known, we’ll experience a kind of hunger that we’ve never known. A hunger to learn and grow and become better than we were yesterday. And we shouldn’t be fooled. Wisdom isn’t hiding. It’s calling out. If we’re missing it, it’s because we’re just not listening. “Out in the open wisdom calls aloud, she raises her voice in the public square; on top of the wall she cries out, at the city gate she makes her speech…” (Prov 1:20-21) Especially in this day and age where information is everywhere, finding wisdom is not a matter of “can” but “will.” A...

*          *          * What do you do when you don’t know what to do? When there seem to be too many options? When there’s no clarity? When there’s no clear path? Trust God and move. I mean, what else am I gonna do? Nothing is not an option. People are under the delusion that they are staying still in life when they do nothing. That’s a lie. The tide of life is always moving. If you’re not working to go forward, the default is to drift backward, degrade, and devolve into “entropic chaos.” Nothing? That’s unacceptable. Not even my trust in the waiting is stagnant. “Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” (Jam 2:18) Because I trust God, I know I can move. I can move with confidence. I can move without fear. And I can move knowing that my movement will be guided. But the bottom line is I need to trust God and do something. Anything. Actually…not anything because my default “do” is to look for vi...

  *          *          * What is the impact I want to make? Not on the whole world. That’s too big for me right now. On a few. The few people who may encounter my tiny little corner of the internet. What do I want to do for them? I’ve recently come to terms with the fact that I do indeed desire to make an impact on people. I never really thought I did. I thought I was quite selfish, to be honest. Not proudly, but I acknowledged it. That was the reason I couldn’t accept the idea of ever getting large amounts of attention. Because I didn’t want it for me . But what about for someone else? That’s different. I would do it for someone else. Which I’ve now decided is a go. ( Read about it here ) Sooo… What do I want to do for that someone else? I’ve thought about it, and at the current stage of my life where I am now, I’ve come up with this: I want to move people’s hearts so that they are driven to change. And they don’t just want to ch...