What do you think about?

What do you think about when there's nothing to think about?

This question came up as a part of a discussion during our church small group a few weeks ago, and the "Sunday School" answer was supposed to be God/Jesus.

When you're bored, when you're relaxed, when you're rocking in a chair on the porch or sitting around a fire --- what do you think about? Are you praising God for how awesome he is? Are you contemplating how can you make a difference in someone's life? Are you thinking about how blessed we are that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and rose again to beat death?

I doubt it.

I started contemplating the question. What do I think about when there's nothing to think about? I think about my husband. I think about my grocery list and what meals I can make next. I think about the to-do list at home. If conditions are right, usually when sitting around a fire at night, looking at the stars, I do think about how small I am and how big God is and I praise him for caring about me, even as such a small speck in the history of time and space. But for the most part, what I'm thinking about when there's nothing to think about is not about God.

Out of the fulness of the heart, the mouth speaks. I would also say, where your heart is, where your priorities are, that's where your thoughts trail to.

So, although it's not a bad thing that my mind tends to wander to my to-do list and my meal preparations, it's not necessarily where my priorities should be.

I have thought a lot about my shortcomings lately, and I have decided that I should stop trying to fix myself and fall more in love with God, and hopefully, out of the fullness of the heart my mouth will begin to speak. Hopefully, the closer to God we all become, the more we think on him, on good things, on truth, on holiness, on love. The more we fall in love with God, the more our minds will also speak where our hearts are.