thinkin'

Starting off this blog with wishin’ hopin’ thinkin’ and prayin’ has got me to really think about what I think about.

“Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

This takes me back about 11 years, back to my bible school days – when one of our teachers gave the “Kleenex box illustration” He picked up a Kleenex box and said “this represents the things we focus on, the things we spend time thinking about”

Try it – if there is a box or book or something around and pick it up… If you hold it at an arms length you can see the box, but you can also see everything else around you. The box is a part of the big picture.

BUT if you hold it right up close to your face – you can ONLY see the box – you can hardly see what else is around you.

It is almost as if the box is magnified.

That is how it is with our thoughts.

My thoughts - the things that I spend my time thinking about are the things that become magnified in my life. I have to be honest; I do struggle in this area of my life. I often find myself with nagging thoughts of doubt, fear and wondering.
The what if’s…
What if I never get the chance to be a mother?
What if I never get to experience the joy of pregnancy?
What if we are the ones who get labeled “the couple who couldn’t have kids”?

When these thoughts are in my mind – the struggle that my husband and I are facing becomes magnified – almost so much that I don’t see the bigger picture.

I need to change the way I think. I need to be purposeful in my thoughts.

Phil 4:6-8 “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding , will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally , brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy – meditate on these things.”

That pretty much says it all…

So if I do this – if I purpose to think about these things, if I choose to think about God and what He is able to do instead of asking the “what if’s” then HE will be magnified in my life!
That is my prayer for today. That He will be magnified!