New Church Life Nov/Dec 2014 | Page 46

new church life: november/december 2014 Our thoughts get more and more complex. If I do it this way, this will happen. If I do it a different way, something else will happen. These examples are simple. More demanding examples could be education, finding someone to marry, buying a house. But the same thing happens. We make observations. We read information from different schools. We listen to what people say. Then we reflect. We think and we feel. If we take yet another step we realize that the more important the object of our investigation is, the more deeply we think, and the number of decisions we make increases. We soon realize that the bigger the decisions are, the more they affect oth \