Priorities

As I write this at 9:30 PM EST on Wednesday September 12, 2018 Eddie Monies live version of “Two Tickets to Paradise” is on 95.7 FM “The Ride.”   In the background is the Brewers / Cubs game on ESPN and Hurricane Florence coverage on the Weather Channel.  I am at Peace as I hope you are as well.  My mind racing with thoughts, the week has been a whirlwind…literally, there’s a big ol’ storm out there!

Sorting priorities is most challenging when you are in the spirit.  When you are in control, but have “heightened activity” levels.  There is a difference between being manic…being unable to process the thoughts that are bombarding your mind.  This is what many who suffer from autism would tell you…if they only could.  They are a heightened spirit caught in a malfunctioning web of circuitry in their brain.  Something just isn’t clicking…at the right time and place. Immune to outside distractions they have enough internal distractions to deal with.

Mine has been a roller coaster ride of a life.  I have experienced heightened activity levels and kept them under control….I have also been in positive and negative manic states.  I use the terms positive and negative so as to clearly define the difference in emotions and actions of people who are bi-polar and let’s not forget about the multi-polar either. 

Ours is a complicated life, but it has some simple truths. The simplest truth is that you are a unique person, although many may look like you physically, none are wired as you uniquely are.  This is important to remember…you are not the only one…but you are only one.

Priorities…what are mine.  I’ve reached a point in my life where I must capitalize on the gifts our Lord has bestowed upon me.  I have never used my music or my writing to support my financial needs.  I have worked my whole life since my first job as a paper boy.  I loved delivering papers….I took pride in being able to deliver it right to their doorstep from a distance as I rode my bike, flung one  towards its destination and fetched a fresh one out the back carrying bags in seemingly one motion. 

My career path has mainly been in system installation work in commercial buildings, but I’ve done so much more than that.  But harmonica and writing has always been a hobby, a release, therapy to the soul and mind if you will.  Writing this… is helping me sort out my priorities.

I see the signs, I see the signals, I feel the eyes and at times I can tap into your mind…or at least it seems as so.  I cannot justifiably explain these “gifts.”  But I tell you this…I have made a list of priorities and hovering towards the very top is not meeting my financial needs or realizing dreams of wealth…no sir.  But if some coin comes my way...all the better.

My priority is to serve my fellow man.  To help each other become better together.  That is my priority as I also serve a God who is the master of all my thoughts and actions. He will chart a course for me to follow.  But I have to sort out the devil’s distractions to see the path clearly.

I do not know what tomorrow brings…besides a big ol’ storm.  A storm that will rip apart the outer banks to a point where serious and I mean serious consideration needs to be given to rebuilding roads and infrastructure; which seems to be an every year or so thing lately…you think God is trying to tell these people something?  Wait you don’t have to answer that…it’s too easy of a question.

Be safe my family and friends and always remember whether you are in the eye of the storm or on its outer edges….you are still in a storm.  Let the lightning flash and the thunder roll as the wind howls.