Poem - “How to Think”

                                            Romans 12

With mind renewed

Not by science or philosophy

But a different discipline

That tempers cognitivity –

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With sober judgment guiding me,

No talk of logic here,

Only reasons of the heart,

Not the cranial sphere.

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Think not of self but those around

The Body that unites the many.

Although a member distinct

You are one of a community.

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Think what you can contribute,

Not how you can be served.

This reasoning makes no sense

It strikes us as absurd.

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But this is the mind we must shape,

Our learning thrown for a loss.

Pin your reason not to facts

But a most unreasonable cross.

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“How to Think” Copyright © 2020 by Jerry Robbins. Printed with permission of the author.