My husband usually says that I am “talking double talk,” when the truth is that he cannot be attentive long enough to follow my logic through to the end.  Interestingly enough, the BIBLE has the same problem.  How many times have we heard people say that the BIBLE contradicts itself?  It does not.  The Bible is a systematic form of communication.  It is written in what movie makers would call 3D Format – in that it gives you height, depth, and breadth (width) of every scenario outlined therein.  So is it with my writing and my speaking as well.  I can understand how people can get lost in my logic if they are not following intently.  Believe me, there are times when even I get lost in my own maze of thought; but I know my thought process, so it is easier for me to pick up the loop and run with it than someone else who is not well versed in my ideology.  I can’t tell you why.  That is just the way I am.  I have this uncanny notion that in order to make an educated decision, it is not enough to know what is above or what is beneath, but you also have to know what is in the middle.  Therefore, when I survey a situation, I follow every lead, consider every clue, and inspect every fathom of it before I render a conclusion.  The result is that I may revisit the same topic a hundred times, but each time I see it from a different point of view, and come to a different conclusion.  When I have covered all the angles, then I make my final summation.   That is the premise on which my book PERSPECTIVES is based.

My perception of the prevailing issues of life is that it is a lot like playing double dutch. At first glance, it looks like two ropes, but if you follow the loops of the rope, it will look like a circle.  Then if you follow all the angles carefully it will look like a square that has lost its tautness, which to some extent it really is.  However, if you pay really close attention to the ends, as well as the middle, you will come to realize that double dutch is really being played with a straight rope that takes on the appearances of different shapes depending on how you look at it.  All I’m really doing when I communicate is holding one end of the rope, observing what happens to the middle, and following the rope to the other end.  Then I tie the ends of the rope together and frame the whole picture.  The trick is to not lose sight of any part of the rope for the entire length.  Then, and only then, will you truly understand how the game is really being played.  Moreover, you cannot play double dutch with a short rope, because there wouldn’t be enough length for the anchors to manipulate the height, width and depth of the loops to keep the skipper from tripping up in them.  Perceptive, huh?  And you thought you knew how to play Double Dutch.

In trying times, we either draw closer to God, draw closer to the enemy or we try to hold our own ground. That is the 3D Format – the height, width, and depth of life.  God didn’t call us to play it safe and stay in the middle.  He has asked us to chose this day whom we will serve  – “If God be God then serve him, if Baal be god then serve, him, but chose ye this day whom you will serve. As for me, and my house, we will serve the Lord.”  I stand on this verse, because even now in my house there is a division of sought regarding religious beliefs and practices, but from where I stand (or in this case sit), this house is a house built unto the Lord, “Being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good works in you (us) will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 1:6).

I must say though that last statement is a bold proclamation of my belief in miracles, and my trust in God. You see, as of even moment, not every member of my household has turned their lives wholly unto the Lord. In fact, some of them have completely strayed from the teachings of the Christian doctrine to embrace an alternative movement in their spiritual quest.  However, as with my friend, Ogie, and many others who are still wayfarers, bystanders and spectators in the arena of life and living in the throes of religious tyranny, I know they will come again to the throne room of grace and embrace the risen Christ fervently, because that is the gist of the promise…that “No matter how far away they roam, they will come again to call Christ their King, and heaven home.”