Who or What Shapes Your Life

This blog covers thoughts, writings, and recommendations on what or who influences your life.

Category: Thoughts

  • Thoughts.  Negative. Positive. Bothersome.

    Thoughts.  Negative. Positive. Bothersome.

    Everybody gets the rascals.  Do you let them control your life?  Often as Christians we are reminded we are sinners.  This deals with the negative of life in becoming what we think about.  What we are not hearing enough is the gifts of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.  (Gal 5:22-23)   There…

  • It is all in your mind

    It is all in your mind

    Your life is driven by thought.Your mind is a garden. Is the soil fertile or rocky? Your thoughts are seeds. Are the seeds flowers or weeds?Are the results patience and kindness? You must get the evil out of your mind.All gardens need care with weeding and watering. Your mind will return in abundance whatever you…

  • Thoughts R Us

    Thoughts R Us

    Given thoughts are seeds, how good of a garden is your mind?  Is it a hard path, rocky ground, full of thorns or good soil?  Are your seeds loving, peaceful, joyful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, self-controlled?  What are you going to plant?  Positive goals and thoughts or trouble and negative thoughts? The parable in…

  • Think Out of the Box Nick

    Think Out of the Box Nick

    Do not miss the point as Nicodemus did in both Christian and secular life. Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Jewish ruling Sanhedrin council. He was an educated teacher in a position of power and great influence. Yet Nicodemus failed to understand what Christ told him that he must be born again.…

  • Thoughts Shape your life

    Thoughts Shape your life

    The moment evil presents itself , turn it away, repudiate it, refuse to accept it nd quietly affirming right thinking. P.59 Emmet Fox The Sermon on the Mount ; A wrong thought is just as destructive an act as a wrong deed. P.64 Ibid; Matt 5:27 …

  • How do you measure the quality of life?

    How do you measure the quality of life?

    Who or What Shapes Your Life? Government measures the quality of life in terms of education level, crime rate, health issues and income etc. How do you measure the quality of life? Do the measurements include purpose, attitude, love or hope? You can get quality of life by knowing “The Strangest Secret” and putting it…