12 Ways God Loves You: Practices That Form Strong Attachments To God And God’s PeopleSample

Mutual mind. People with strong attachments start thinking alike. They know what the other person is thinking before they even speak. Through attachment, thinking with God becomes a mutual mind that changes our character, identity, and spontaneous responses. 

Consider what St. Paul says, “we are His workmanship [poiēma; Ποίημα]” We are God’s craftsmanship of a special sort designed to do what God prepared for us to do ahead of time. Doing what God prepared means that we are thinking with God about our lives. This design is called poiēma—that is, “poetry.” Hebrew poetry is a rhyming of thoughts rather than sounds. One example of rhyming thoughts is:

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods. Psalm 96:4

Suppose our thoughts rhyme God’s thoughts—not worded the same way but with the same theme. Through attachment, our thinking can become a mutual mind with God where we “get it”; mutual-mind thoughts change our character, identity, and spontaneous responses. By thinking with God rather than about God, we do what God would have us do: the works God prepared for us ahead of time. Consider how mutual mind flows from the grace we studied on day 3.