Daydreams

Wow, I'm out of the regular blogging habit. After nearly two years of writing blog on chapters of the Bible getting back to regular posting isn't easy. However, what do we do? Get up and start doing.

I am writing today about Oswald Chambers's devotion, My Utmost for His Highest for today. He mentioned that daydreaming was perfectly fine if you are rehearsing how to do what is right. It is wrong when your daydreaming rather than doing it.

Daydreaming is a useful tool but I agree it is often used as a distraction from really working. I would point out that for those people who are prone to action see all daydreaming as wrong. This, however, is wrong. Working through a problem or a plan in your mind often saves people from mistakes, which some action prone people make. Like jumping out of a burning plane. The person who thought first put on the parachute which the action prone person thought about on the way down, but not after that.

Is that illustration extreme? No not really, but neither is the person who thought about everything they needed to do and finally got it worked out as the plane hit the ground.

There is a time to daydream, but there is a time to act. The key is to know which is which.