Keep On Dancin’ #8

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought to his steps. Proverbs 14:15

When you face problems, there is equal danger in underdefining them as there is in overdefining them.

Simple answers are not necessarily simplistic answers. Band-Aids are a simple, effective solution for cuts and scrapes, but they don’t do a thing for cancer. Likewise simplistic answers don’t address the real issues of a problem. If you use them, you will probably cover up what you don’t understand rather than take the time to see the problem clearly. Therefore, you won’t know enough about the problem to be able to sort the necessary from the unnecessary.

To simplify a problem means simply to remove that which clutters up your thinking.

Unclutter my thinking, Lord, and help me see my problem for what it is.

Taken from Tim Hansel’s book Keep On Dancin’ Daily readings