Don't Get Distracted!

Wow, she is gorgeous. Blond, comfortable, fun looking. And, driving a 69 Camaro! I love the paint job; a creamy rich yellow, with a wide black strip across the top. Gotta be custom. Is it a Z28? 

WHAM.

The gawker rear-ended the good-looking Camaro.

The back window of the Camaro shattered and fell out. The driver pulled over, turned off the car, and got out. So did the gawking, now dumbfounded, guy who hit her. They were 20 feet from a busy 4 way intersection in downtown Kennewick, Washington. Other drivers reduced their speed to get around the mess. People were admiring or shaking their heads at the folly. Curious pedestrians began crowding around, habitually lured to any spectacle.

The gorgeous blond held her ground. She knew this affair was going to be dealt with quickly and correctly. Although completely aware of the man’s inanity, she purged her mind of blame. Human beings get distracted. She did not need to add to the distracted milieu by finding fault. She blocked out the mounting interference coming from the crowd and made an effort to look past the stir.

The police were called. It was hot outside. Hot. The gorgeous blond did not react to the heat or the man’s rambling. Yes, his car’s front end was bashed in real good by the heavy weighted Camaro, but that was not a point at the moment. She began an orderly process of making sure they stood where it was safe and they exchanged information. The police came, followed up on the business and they all dispersed.

Quite often situations come up that demand our immediate and concentrated effort. And, if we don’t give spiritual attention, the situation lingers or worsens. The circumstance can be a child’s escalating tantrum, a frantic co-worker, or an attacked body. However, as the mind systematically stays uninterrupted by surface perceptions, a person can manifest perpetual forward movement. A mess can dissolve with impeccable thought, untainted by self-will, timidity, or resentment. From 21st Century Science and Health, “Thought is attracted toward Soul and as a result, superficial perceptions and the body do not become distractions.”

Anytime people get attracted to surface perceptions, they really are being distracted away from Soul, our source of nonstop progressive expression. The distraction away from Soul causes mental blocks to be felt. Or, embarrassing situations can be created. This is needless however, because there is a force that strikes our human beingness with the power to look further, deeper, and see a decent outcome. I call the force, Christ.

There is no question that the human mind can be befuddled or punch-drunk for no apparent reason. Therefore, Jesus constantly brought attention to our ability to connect with the Christ-spirit. Once, when a large hungry crowd was coming toward him, Christ Jesus asked Philip where they should buy bread to feed the crowd. “He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.” (John 6::6, NRSV) Philip went into brain-freeze mode. He began rambling on about how many months it would take someone to work at a job to pay for the food necessary to feed the crowd.

But Peter, standing alongside, was a bit more savvy (or in other words, a bit less distracted by human scheming and numbers), looked at what they did have, instead of what they didn’t have, and found some bread and two fish. Yet Peter, although willing to rely on ontological realism, still fell back on his calculations by running some comparisons. He measured the people, then the food, and confessed the small amount of food could not feed so many people.

Then there was Christ, fully realized by Jesus who knew spiritual food was endless.

Christ Jesus held his ground. He demanded order. The crowd was told to sit. Undistracted by the inane, the doubtful, the contrasting and comparing, Jesus gave thanks. The food increased exponentially as it was shared. Everyone ate and they had leftovers.

The goal to manifest a clear ordered thought process is possible. As we know Soul, the spirit of humanity is exalted by the Christ-spirit, consequently we are receptive to regroup immediately after a disruption. Christ—one with Soul and its unending supply of credible ideas—then melds our being with the perpetual movement forward. When thought is on God, there are no distracted thoughts.