Pondering a perspective by author and lecturer Nir Eyal. He is called a foremost authority on habit formation and focus.

“We are sold this unrealistic and unhealthy fixation and obsession with happiness. And most people don’t understand that we are evolved to be constantly happy. You want a species to be perpetually perturbed. You want us to always strive to always want more, to always be discontent so that we fix things.” (Nir Eyal)

“Feelings of discomfort are important. They push us to find and fix what is broken.” (Lewis Howes.)

In his book The Greatest Mindset, Lewis Howes comments:

“…reimagining the purpose of discomfort. When we feel bored, lonesome, uncertain, anxious, fatigued, fearful, we have to start by understanding that these uncomfortable sensations are a gift. A gift to help us use that as rocket fuel toward traction, rather than trying to escape it with distraction.” (page 187)

“Our emotions are data, not directives” (Psychologist Dr. Susan David).

I’ve been looking for a word or two to say when someone in the news clearly speaks an untrue opinion. I want something as effective as “damn!” Or a more graphic word. I want to set into motion activity that is not verbalizing witchcraft. I don’t want something horrible to happen to the liar or propogandist, like a severe rash in an inaccessible spot. I sure don’t want the wrong to go unchallenged. There is “Let your yes be yes and your no be no,” (Matthew 5:37). That has always meant to me: let responses not get mucked up with profane statements. However, I don’t think Jesus said “Behold, behold!”

After several days of thinking about, and trying words and phrases, a potent phrase jumped into my mind. “Jesus’ Kingdom Come”! That is what Jesus taught us to pray—“Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as in heaven.”

An educator described what is happening to some students—hundreds of thousands to 6.5 million—who went missing after the pandemic or are truant on any given school day. Without supervision or education they are in peril of becoming a feral kid. I want to ask for judgement on those events and people who facilitate(d) that. I avoid cursing them, but I want them to be accountable. I want the students restored—“Jesus Kingdom Come!” in that youngster or young person’s life immediately. Right now!

Guys playing golf. One swore when he hit a bad shot. The other hocked up a goober and spit. “Does spitting make you feel better?”   The spitter answered, “I know that where I spit the grass will never grow again.”

To say/pray “Jesus’ Kingdom Come,” sets Resurrection power into motion. If it aligns with God’s will!

Jesus’ Kingdom Come!

©2023 D. Dean Benton, Ponderer, Wonderer, Meanderer.