Guest Blogger, Paula Morris Thomas -- Pacing the Floor, Walking Through the Mind

Hello Everyone,

I'm honored to have Paula Morris Thomas, a truly a gifted writer and wonderful person, as a guest blogger today on Carla's Reflections.  Check out her deep and thought provoking note and article below. Feel free to leave your comments and share with others.

Peace!

Carla

*Note* ~ Oftentimes depression is not considered to be a disease or sickness. And it can be doubly hard to get the support you need from the Black community and the Christian community. I know what I speak of first hand. And so I would retreat into my mind to help me cope and try to make sense of the screams going on inside of me that had to be silenced because there were no receptive ears willing or able to hear me in my voice...

~~~ Pacing the Floor, Walking Through the Mind ~~~

And I would sit and think because thinking allowed me to change my actual dreary existence into what I hoped for, longed for, desired. But after awhile sitting became too confining, too limited, too restricted. So I'd arise from my perch and engage my feet as part of the solution to bring me into the realm of my ideals and ideas.

So I would walk and hold meetings in my head. And the meetings were attended by me and He who created the mind in the first place...which turned out to be a great decision 'cause He don't judge like folks.  He don't make you feel stupid, strange or like you're out in left field when all of life is happening in the right.

And I marveled at the complexities of the mind. All five of the major senses are housed and commanded from there. And I yearned to know what was on His mind when He made the mind...so I asked.

And He said, "The mind is the upstairs area of the essence of the human house.  It contains wisdom, knowledge and understanding. And you know that wisdom is the principal thing...the main thing...the primary thing. But if you have no understanding of what you're wise about then the mind is wasteland. So I gave you your mind so that you would come to be wise enough to know Who I am and understand Whose you are and walk unfettered to and through your purpose."

So I continued to walk holding the meeting in my head. And the meeting was attended by me and He who created the mind in the first place. And my steps were strong, my head was held high, my back was straight and my shoulders were back. And I understand that the gift of a sound mind is the greatest gift under the perpetual Christmas tree. Unwrap it daily with thanksgiving and a yielded will to He who gifted you in the first place.

Sometimes pacing the floor is more than just an opportunity to walk and worry. It's also an opportunity to walk in sweet communion with He who reveals things to you and causes you to understand.

There is hope and help through depression. Stay encouraged...

Paula Morris Thomas