Is there a way to fend off thoughts?
Can one make a choice to dwell on a noun or not?
I wonder if I just let my mind free, free to rest wherever it pleased. On pleasant things or prickly. I wonder how I would be if my mind was left undisciplined. Would it only rest where it's easy, comfortable, close, and immediately gratifying?
These thoughts launch me into what I need to hear.
I need to exercise mental discipline. I need to set my focus on imagining good things--not unhelpful things.
I don't want to over think possibilities and negativities. I don't want to be satisfied with planting my thoughts at the foot of difficulty, but to advance to the crest where help resides.
Help my thoughts, O God. Don't let them hurt me.
How liberating mental freedom is. How sweet is the liberation of the mind.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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