I had a brush with this concept just last night. While reading Beaver’s post, I began to think “What on earth is he trying to say?” You can see my brain being spun around while I write my two responses. The first was me just saying “Hey, what’s up with this post?” and jsut as I posted that reply, the thought clicked with me. The concept sank in and I felt kinda foolish for not coming up with it. All day today, I chuckled at the thought. You goof, I said. It was staring you right in the face. When I came on tonight and read the post, another thought clicked in with me. I was thinking of last night’s post, I was thinking with my intellectual, active mind. I needed to think of it with my spiritual, passive mind. There is a difference, and I see it now. Our active intellectual mind is the devil’s playground. Here, he tries to use logic and doubt to defeat us. He creates chaos and confusion, and tells us that the wrong thing is right if we do it a certain way and that our intellect is greater than any other person’s belief can ever be. Our passive spiritual mind is where we go when we pray, when we worship, and when we get into our private areas and offer our deepest soul to God. This mind tells us that everything will be all right if we ask God to help us. I’m resolving here and now to use my passive spiritual mind more lightly, as sometimes you need to stop analyzing things in order to understand them better. Seeing and Hearing aren’t the same as Looking and Listening, and Thinking and Believing aren’t equal either. Here’s to the hope that we can expand our minds without inhibiting our hearts.