Renewing the mind...

As I sat in my chair at church, instead of listening which does happen from time to time, I was contemplating my blog. I was thinking about all the titles of blogs and blog themes. I pondered that which I thought was a relevant current theme, at least relevant and current for where I am walking in my life...

Ed talked about flipping the switch.... say when we are in our own little world, our own little pity party and we have to make that decision to "flip the switch" and get out of it. Ed said it is hard to do, at least for him. I agree... hard yes doable a must. After spending much of my life being negative, being angry, maneuvering through life in internal pain and in a perpetual pity party, I realize I HAVE to put a stop to it, the trick is how.

Renewing the mind. What is that exactly? First and foremost it is bringing in good things; positive things, right things. I have to think on things that are opposite of all the negative I have believed about myself for so many years. Its tough the mind wants to hold on to the past, the negative; it does not want to let go without a fight. Renewing the mind also is more than just taking in good things; it is believing the good about yourself.

On a spiritual level... renewing the mind is believing what God says about us... taking the chance that HIS word is true that we can trust what HE says about us to be true. Easier said than done.

The book I just read, A New Earth, Awakening to Your Lifes' Purpose, talked a lot about being in the present; living in the present. The author suggested that we need to rise above the traffic and noise of our minds which represents are ego. The ego can never be satisfied. I would like to suggest that living in the "Present" in spiritual terms would be being lead by the Holy Spirit. Again it is accepting the belief that what is true, what is right, what is lovely is that which we meditate and fix our minds on. When we are in that place of living and believing Gods way we can rise above the ego and traffic of our minds which deceives us and leads us away from the truth; HIS truth.

No I know that cant be 24/7, but it something that we can live for set our minds for and work towards achieving. It is more than a dream or wish, it can be our reality. We are not trapped in the past or negative thought patterns which are self destructive at best. God loves us and He wants to be close to HIMSELF; HE wants to pour HIMSELF into us and we need to be a space that allows that to be... in HIS SPIRIT.