simplicity

It amazes me that the title or subject is always the first field to enter text. As if somehow a title could be made up before the body. That in any way a single sentence or phrase should be able to define what you allow to flow through your writing. Not even just define what you write, but to encase it. Placing parameters on your thoughts.

Who could deny a title having its place? It labels a work; it helps us to decide whether we want to invest our time to read what has been said. It allows us to make a snap judgement on whether or not we think that what will follow will be worth our attention or something of utter uselessness. To allow us to place an emotion within ourselves before we even get to the context. Pre-conceiving meanings before even truly knowing the subject matter.

We just people by their titles all the time. Labeling is just easier than getting to know the context of a person. People take on the titles of : parent, farmer, president, and enemy. Without questioning the title given, we embrace and let the emotion of that title carry our opinion to what we have been taught to think it means; whether through experience, social conditioning, or innate intuition. Are we willing to look past the titles of not only works, but of the titles given to people? While it is of our nature to judgement by what we perceive by the outward appearance of others, can we strive to view the worth of others as God does?

When it comes down to it, titles may be liberating in a way of finding what we are interested in. But at what cost? We reject the notion that we could learn from what is different. There is only one title in which we need to view people "made in the image of God." And that is a simple, but beautiful title.