I never was a Bee Gees fan.  I never made an effort to memorize their lyrics.  I acknowledge their accomplishments; they just weren’t for me (and yes, I remember the release of Saturday Night Fever, for those that wish to date this reference).

Still, the other morning I woke up with the words to the Bee Gees “Emotion” running through my head.  “I dare not sing this aloud,” I said to myself, “or I’ll be singing this all day.”  But I couldn’t stop humming the chorus.

So what did I do?

1. I acknowledged the power of my mind, granted by God, to retain information from 40 years ago which I had never truly focused on.
2. I weighed again my responsibility to govern the content of what comes in my head, since I see that things unconsidered at their point of entrance, can still be stewing around in there.
3. I marveled at the power of focus and of choice, and thought, if I can continue to be intentional about what I take in, then I can be sure that my subconscious and my spirit will continue to sift and chew on the content, to my good.
4. I thought about the laws of the harvest: that I will reap what I sow, that I will reap later than I sow, and that I will reap more than I sow.  And I want that compounding effect working in my favor.

There’s a Chinese proverb (attributed to Lao Tzu) that says, “the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is today.”  What are you planting in your mind now, and what are you hoping to grow?

These thoughts helped me process the song, although I confess, I did finally cave and sing out loud, in my best falsetto voice, “it’s just emotion that’s taken me over…”