THINK, v.i. To have the mind occupied on some subject; to have ideas, or to revolve ideas in the mind. (Definitions from Webster's 1828 Dictionary. )

Heard a great line today... referring to people making right choices, or being better informed to make those choices... "People need to make the decision to think."

So simple, yet so profound; ultimately, thinking is a choice. If you believe that you were created by an all knowing Creator, and that you were created in His image, then, you understand that you were created to be a thinker.

Thinking, however, involves effort. Not the kind of effort that makes you physically tired, but certainly the kind of effort that can leave you mentally drained.

Much as I tried, he could not, or would not, stop and think before opening his mouth. This has become one of the major the diseases of our times. Listen to most interviews either on radio or TV, and you will hear the same inane statements repeated, again and again. Political commentators, in particular, both on the left and on the right seem to major on platitudes.

The problem is that it is soooo easy to just blabber easy and accepted opinions. Hey, we have all done it; taken the easy way out. But, if we want to live up to our call, to our true role, to the true self we were created to be, we need to "make the decision to think."