Deep Thoughts?

Sometimes I feel like 10 times a day I'm asking myself if anyone else thinks like me. You know, when you are totally nodding your head while your kid asks you a question and your mind is off in Jumanji.....those kinds of thoughts. Brian has to sometimes physically pull me back into the present because I'm off somewhere thinking of the deepest, weirdest, craziest, saddest things that human beings can possibly think of. Have you been there? I think that it takes being around someone who is so not a deep thinker that makes you feel one of two things: a psychopath or a genius. So lately I've had moments of feeling very intelligent, or very unstable---wonderful options if I do say so myself. I think I've passed on this gene to Noah. That kid asks me some pretty insane questions and I can see just where his mind is headed after I answer.

Why does God make some people think so dang differently than others? Ya ya ya, there's the whole bit about challenging one another and revealing new things/ideas/answers, but most of the time I think it's just frustrating. And no, I have no direction for this post whatsoever, so if you are searching, don't. For instance, there was recently some legislation that passed here that allows the Athiest Society to post ads in the city buses that read "You Can Be Good without God". Really? Now what are they hoping to gain by posting these signs? A bunch of people suddenly leaping for joy and saying "Phew! What a relief!"? I mean, I'm totally baffled by this. I think those of us that are true believers feel we really aren't capable of being good without God---because afterall, all good things come from Him. But the world of course is quick to believe that yes, naturally, you can be good without God. I know "good" people that have no relationship with God whatsoever---but that doesn't change the fact that He created them--and created them in His image. Anyhoo, just something I've been stewing over for the last 24 hours after reading the paper. Oh and to touch on that, there's the whole story of the guy in NC that was supposedly the nicest, wisest, most helpful neighbor around and turns out he was orchestrating some major terrorism plot. So maybe you can be "good" without God but not all good. And does any of his good really matter at all if he was planning on blowing multitudes of people up somewhere down the line?

I know, heavy stuff. And yet, right in the middle of these thought patterns I'm given a net by one of my sons and told I'm a princess and to put it on my head. So I do, and then I act like a 5 yr old and laugh and then boom---I'm back at the brain business. It. never. stops. I just wonder at what level of conscienceness God really intended us to be at. Why did he give us levels of thought, if you will? Why are deep thoughts considered to be usually darker, sadder, more serious, etc?

Anyway, totally not a pick-me-up post. But I do have one more recognizable "deep thinker" for ya to wrap up this odd segment. Closing thought, but Jack Handy:

"Any man, in the right situation, is capable of murder. But not any man is
capable of being a good camper. So, murder and camping are not as similar as
you might think."