Have been MIA for a good part of the summer. Life has thrown a few curve balls and made some major changes to my everyday living. Seemed for a while that I had nothing to say that anyone would want to hear.
But now it seems that God has more words for me to share.
Looking forward to being back on a regular basis...
I've been out of pocket lately visiting my newest grandchild. It was a wonderful and much needed vacation...
Our
thoughts are not simply pieces of information that enter our
minds and then disappear. The words and ideas that we think can shape
our lives and drive us toward success and happiness or failure and
distress. How you think and feel can have a profound effect on your
ability to recognize opportunity, how well you perform, and the outcome
of the goals that you’ve set for yourself. When you maintain an optimistic outlook and make an effort to harbor only positive thoughts,
you begin to create the circumstances to help you achieve what
you desire. Being optimistic does not mean that you ignore difficulties or disregard limitations.
Instead, it means that you try and focus only on the thoughts that lift you up.
When you focus on the positive aspects of your life and your future, it helps maintain the feeling that you are worthy of your achievements. In turn, you will start to relax and look for solutions rather than
dwelling on problems. What the mind expects, it finds. If you
anticipate joy, good health, happiness, and accomplishment, you
will tend to experience them.
Staying positive may not have an immediate
effect on your situation, but it will likely have a profound and
instantaneous effect on your mood and the quality of your experiences.
In order for positive thinking to change your life, it must become your
predominant mind-set. It is within your grasp to become as happy, content, or successful as
you make up your mind to be.
One of the big issues that adults struggle with is our inability to live totally in the present. Children live moment to moment. They do not worry about the future and unless prompted, do not waste their time in the past.
What kind of change would it make in our day to day living if we dealt only with what was happening "right now"? In order to accomplish this feat, we must continually remind ourselves that what is most important is happening in the here and now. We need to "master our minds" so that each time we find our thoughts wandering, we return to the most important time we have...the right now. We are not guaranteed any more than that...to believe it is ours keeps us from wholly trusting that God is in control and will be in charge no matter what occurs.
Faith that our lives are the concern of God and knowledge that we have the Creator of the universe laying out our path, frees us to be the children God calls us to be...
