{"id":1867,"date":"2012-01-22T09:16:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T17:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2012-01-22T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T17:16:33","slug":"try-things-you-never-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/01\/22\/try-things-you-never-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Things–You Never Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s another bit of clear wisdom that, once discovered, became a basic\u00a0approach for how to live life. That’s in spite of not always knowing the clear way forward (which is a lot of the time).<\/p>\n

Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle,\u2028for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. <\/strong>Ecclesiastes 11:6<\/em><\/p>\n

There it is, from the highest authority. We’re advised, even exhorted, to get into action even though all we have is blind faith and an idea. Or are conflicted between various ideas.<\/p>\n

There are no promises in this life for 100 percent success every time. That’s what we’d like. Somehow we think God should give it to us. Particularly if we’re friends. But that’s not how this scripture says it works.<\/p>\n

Rather it says, “Try things. Try multiple things.” If they all work, get ready for time management.<\/p>\n

There are no guarantees but one: If you do nothing, nothing will happen.<\/p>\n

Somehow knowing that life is a big experiment is liberating, even exhilarating. I don’t have to wait until everything is perfectly lined up, all the questions are answered and I’m good enough, smart enough, rich enough, confident enough. If I’m always waiting for all that, it could be all week before I do something, or all year.<\/p>\n

Or all life.<\/p>\n

God created human beings, not automatons. And here He’s calling us to remember that. We’ve been given brains, emotions, and wills. We’re not just subject to instincts. That’s for the animals. They just do it. No decision. (Or indecision.) We, however, live in a less sure landscape. Ours is to use the head, explore the options, and then move out . . . in one direction or the other. Or both in their time.<\/p>\n

We can’t know how it will go; and that’s a beautiful thing to know.<\/p>\n

We’ve been given permission–even admonition–to experiment, to explore, to initiate, to delve.<\/p>\n

If we try enough things, something’s bound to work. Even stumbling along is progress.<\/p>\n

Without the sails set, the rudder is useless.<\/p>\n

So, what is it that’s been in your mind to do but you haven’t for one reason or ten? That’s a seed. It’s the Author of Life that’s telling us to get that seed in the ground . . . in the morning. Then get another in the ground in the evening. You don’t know which will take. In time you could have a garden, or an orchard.<\/p>\n

Or the whole North 40.<\/p>\n

Let me know what you think . . . and in time, what happens.<\/p>\n

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_________<\/p>\n

Next: “On Not Seeing the Future.” Coming Wednesday (trusting it’ll come).<\/em><\/p>\n

Feel free to share with a friend.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another for the life: We’ve been given seeds, but it’s up to us to put them in the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}