How do we move from knowing something to being something? I heard a speech on this that I would like to share. For instance, you could read a dozen books on how to be a mountain climber and have that knowledge, but then you have to move from "knowing" how to be a mountain climber to "being" a mountain climber. Or in my case, how do I move from "knowing" how to be a healthful eater and keeping my weight stable? I "know" what to do . . .
So in our lives, when we want to move from knowing to being, how do we do that? Think about something that you already are - for instance, you are married. You don't have to think about how to be married, you just are. And the instant you act in a way that is NOT married, you know it. So look through a movie camera and describe how it is to "be" married - you might say things like in the morning you get your spouse's coffee, or while he or she is away at work you clean up the house, when he or she comes home you ask him/her about her day, you go to the store together and so on. You can "see" it.
So then, if you want to think about how you move from knowing to being in the present for anything you want to be then do the same. Pretend you have a movie camera. What does it look like when you are a _____? What sort of things do you say and or do? How do you act ? And how do you NOT act or what things DON'T you do?
Even when you are unsure in a situation, this is always a good mental exercise - in a nanosecond to think about going from what you might know to how you then need to "be". It's true with everything.
I find it fascinating that the scripture says in Romans 12:2, ". . . but be transformed by making your mind over" - the scripture doesn't say be "changed" but be "transformed" because we "become" a different person because we have changed what we "know", what is in our minds, and then we move from knowing it to being it.
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