Adaptative Adjustments

I am delighted as I type, dear reader! I saw a picture that I will share here, that brought me joy, and I simply must give you the same pleasure. 

The observer

I have been studying human behaviours for decades and dare I say, since my childhood. People are a puzzlement with incongruence. What I mean is they act one way, but think another. This is a strange thing until of course you talk to a person, and figure out, everyone does what they do for a reason, whether or not it makes sense to observers. The observer if curious enough, must make the effort to try to understand. Sometimes the person we are watching has no clue why they do what they do, until someone takes the time to ask them, and then they hear themselves explaining the why for their behaviours. 

Here are some helpful ways to connect with the one that seems confused:

• Ask questions
• Listen for what is important to the person
• Hear with ears that long to understand
• Decide to stay connected without judging them for what you think is strange logic, even if it really is. They may be confused, and you can help them sort
• Stay if this is helpful
• Leave if you just can't make heads nor tails of them and their oddities. They may very well be obtuse, and like the uniqueness of being misunderstood! This is their way of standing out, and it doesn't have to take up too much of your mental thought life, or time 🤪

Adaptative humans

What I am appreciating today is how adaptative humans can be. We were created to be creative. We are interactive with our environment, and the wonderful or not so wonderful people in it. This is a God given gift set that is observable. 

Think on a child who for the very first time, grasps his own bottle awkwardly at first. It doesn't take long to learn how wide and strong a grip is required to hold it up for himself, so he can happily satisfy his hunger! Think on when you learned to drive your car, retrieve and send email from googles strange set up, or harder yet, have a wonderful visit with that crazy relative that always manages to make you mad. You had to adapt to the challenge in front of you, making incremental changes that secured a better outcome. 

And this is the human way

• We try something new
• We struggle to adjust
• We find a way to make it easier
• We don't notice the incremental changes
• We have adapted 

Adaptive adjustments

Now I must caution here that some adaptative adjustments can be unhealthy, unholy, and even damaging. We have witnessed this all over the world as people en masse, adapted to the plots and plans of those that were demanding demonically. Even so, when we humans give in the the evil side of ourselves, there is always wiggle room to get out of the straitjacket, to be playfully creative with something that seemed not long ago to enslave! 

I just plain old love that God built into each of us creative thought and behaviour abilities, to provide ways back to factory setting. We humans are made for progress, especially when circumstances seem dire! God does not throw us off course, hateful humans try to though. When we recognize the difference between loving and harmful influences, we decide to respond differently. In difficult situations, the human spirit is ignited, and we become more purposeful!

Soulful steps

We have been wilderness wandering, dear reader. There are signs that we are ready to exit the dryness of the dessert. The lovely truth is, we have never been alone while in here, even though it has felt this way many a time. God in His compassionate mercy has been with us, and we get to trust in Him for our food, water, clothing, shoes, shelter, and more importantly then all the things we physically require to survive, we get to rely on Him to direct our soulful steps as we make our way to a more glorious experience of life here on planet earth. 

Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go (Nehemiah 9:19)

Underneath the snow and ice, there is life waiting to shoot from the thawing ground. Crocuses, the "light bulb flower" will appear, serving as the tiniest of floral reminders, that the risen Lord brings the newness of life with His lighting of the world. We need these heaven sent reminders, of Who is truly in charge of us, of them, of everything alive. 

I sure do hope the picture I shared today lifts your spirits as it did mine. Have a wonderful and blessed, God directed day 💖