Desire White Fire©

Desire White Fire©

A Limerick A Day to Keep You On Your Way©

There once lived a gal of intense desire,

Her subconscious mind began to inquire,

Thought is a plan,

Rise up, I can.

Let my action begin a white-hot fire.

How many times have you felt this intense desire to do something you always wanted to do?  You feel this fire inside you.  Your mind has all kinds of thoughts, ideas, dreams, and plans. You think you are going to burn up with excitement if you don’t immediately do something.  I learned an important truth from Napoleon Hill’s writings on white-hot fire and desire from his book Think and Grow Rich.  I did a deep dive three times into this book.  It is one of those books we should read every year, like the Bible.

We begin immediately.   Our thoughts are fanning the fire’s flame. We have risen, creating a plan.  The plan is heating up to a white fire. Things are moving in the direction we want.  That white fire is burning hot. Perhaps we are making some much-needed financial gain. Our mood is lighter.  We feel more energetic. Maybe even lose weight by burning all those calories.  We look up and miraculously the sky looks bluer against that white–hot fire!  We begin to breathe a little easier.   We even feel quite comfortable in this white-hot fire.  So much so we become…

Distracted

That’s the knockabout thing for us humans.  It is our natural propensity to become  distracted.  Our world is full of non-stop data.  We have become accustomed to distraction as a means of comfort. AND comfort has a way of making us, well…comfortable.  But comfort only stays comfortable if you keep the fire burning.   All fires die out eventually without a constant supply of fuel.  The right fuel is imperative.  The question becomes…

How do you keep your white-hot fire going?

You need ACTION!

JUMP INTO THE FIRE

I am part of a group that meets regularly.  This small action is just one part of the fuel to keep the fire going.  Multiple actions are needed, big and minute. Just like a real fire, twigs to begin, then big logs, and the need to stoke it regularly. All those things are done with action. Almost everyone knows the mantra, “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction”.  Thank you, Sir Isaac Newton, for your third law of motion. The interesting thing about this law is that if the objects/things are the same, the force cancels the opposite reaction.  IF, you believe thoughts are things (and they are) and these things have a powerful force, your thoughts can cancel the opposite reaction.  Let’s take this example. You have trained your mind to believe your action of writing daily will keep your white-hot fire going.  The thought arises, “I don’t feel like writing today so I am going to skip it.”  The next thought is, “Writing is not based on my feeling but on my action of doing it.”  Which thought is going to cancel the other one out?  How does one thought become more forceful than the other?  ACTION. You must take the action of writing if that is the thought you want to win out and cancel the thought to skip writing.  Action produces results.   Word of caution though, focus on the action, not the result.  Often times the results distract us and keep us from consistently jumping in the fire.  My challenge to myself and you is just keep jumping into the fire. 

Rise up, you can.  Make a plan.

Let the plan fuel constant action.

I love this song by Harry Nilsson.  We will never be free of thoughts but we can master them.  Let’s make our thoughts be the fire we don’t want to be free of but instead the fire that fuels the God given creativity He has given every one of us.  Think on these scriptures.

1 Samuel 2:3 KJV   Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

2 Corinthians 8:11 Living Bible   Having started the ball rolling so enthusiastically, you should carry this project through to completion just as gladly, giving whatever you can out of whatever you have. Let your enthusiastic idea at the start be equaled by your realistic action now.

Pray this prayer with me.

Dear Jesus,

Thank You for the abundance of creative desire You have given us.  Help us overcome the natural desire to be slothful.  Open our natural and spiritual eyes and ears to the beauty around us.  Draw out of us the desires You placed in our hearts to create white-hot fires that bring comfort to meet not just our needs but the many that are hurting all around us. Truly we have been created to produce good. In Jesus’ Name.  Amen.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 KJV

3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

 

Written by Paula Ann Kochanek

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