Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from August, 2015

Lets talk.......

I have had this blog for about 7 years now, yet I have found myself wondering about my audience.  Nobody leaves any comments so I wonder "Who is reading it?".  I wonder what my audience needs in their lives right now.   I know there is a purpose why you are here on this blog.  I have even considered taking it down, because I have been doing it for so long, but I feel like I'm talking to myself most of the time.  That's kind of why I first started it, because I needed a place to talk to myself, but now I have grown to a desire to touch my audience.  Not just myself. I'm actually praying God will show me what to do with this blog, because I don't know that it's growing.  And anything I pursue in life, after years, I really need to see the growth of it.  Is this blog living in a sense where God is breathing on it to be a blessing to many???  Definitely praying about expansion and next steps. In the meantime, I have come to realize that you are reading

Book Study - Switch on Your Brain Ch3 Part 1

Excerpt from "Switch on your brain" "Main Scripture: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good,…pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 NIV   Linked Science Concept: Through our thoughts we can be our own micro surgeons as we make choices that will change the circuits in our brains. We are designed to do our own brain surgery and rewire our brains by thinking and by choosing to renew our minds."  I have meditated on the scripture above over the years but I always wondered what it really meant.  I think I have understood bits and pieces but when I read this book, it showed me that we are actually hardwired to fullfill this scripture in our lives.  God has given us the equipment to carry out His will. He has!!!!  This book shows you how to begin to use that equipment.  Dr. Leaf states that "This scientific power of

Book Study -Switch on Your Brain Ch2

Main Scripture - Colossians 3:15 (AMP) Let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in the peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ's] one body you were also called [to live]. And be thankful (appreciative), [giving praise to God always] Linked Scientific Concept Choice is real, and free will exists.  You are able to stand outside of yourself, observe your own thinking, consult with God, and change the negative, toxic thought or grow the healthy positive thought.   When you do this, your brain responds with a positive neuro-chemical rush and structural changes that will improve your intellect, health, and peace.  You will experience soul harmony If a doctor was to show you an image of the neurons, proteins and chemical responses in your brain you would see things that look like trees with branches.  Your thoughts actually form proteins

Book Study -Switch on Your Brain Ch1

The main scripture for Chapter 1 is 2 Timothy 1:7 "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind"   The Scientific Concept: Science shows we are wired for love with a natural optimism bias.  This means what the scripture above says. I am reading this book for the 2nd time and have learned that we are capable of doing our own brain surgery and changing the way our brain is wired.  This can work for the negative or the positive.  God has already wired us towards certain things when He created us.  Good things.  That's why He says in Phillippians 4:8 to meditate on the following: 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. I'm leaning that God does not just say these things because He wa

Seasonal Activities

I began a new season in my life about 5 months ago and I went from being a stay-at-home mom who worked occasionally throughout the week, to being a work-at-home mom.  Meaning I started working daily with my kids at home with me.  It was a hard transition and still continues to be something that I'm still getting use to.  I have had to let alot of things slide around my home and with my children in order to work from home on a regular basis.  Honestly, I never thought I would make business I priority over my more domestic duties.  But here I am.  I have struggled with guilt, but I have come to realize a couple things. 1.  I know for a fact if God wasn't the One propelling me, I would not have been able to commit to working from home. 2.  Even if I was to try to stay on top of the things that I was letting slide, I would get nowhere because it is not the season for me to be focused on those things 3.  You have to allow God to develop the "whole person" not just ce

Pain and Stuggles That We all Have

Does anybody have pain in their lives right now?  Does anyone have sin that they struggle with?  My hand is definitely raised up high in the air.  What are the answers to the pains of the world?  What is the answer to your pain and my pain?  What is the answer to your sin and my sin?  What about that word sin, what does it mean?  Sin means that "we miss the mark".  That simple.  "Missing the mark" expresses itself in different ways in a person's life, depending on that individual.  What is the answer?  Well, Jesus is the answer.  Why is Jesus the answer?  The question at the core of every human being who struggles with sin is "Does God still accept me like this?".  This is the million dollar question.  Drug addicts, prostitutes, gay, lesbian, transgender, child molesters, rapist, exotic dancer, murderers, alcoholics, etc.  At their core they are wondering "Does God accept me like this?" Many have told them that God will not accept them.  M

When "thoughts" make you sick

"Is that thought worth making you sick?"  Last night before I went to bed I started to think about everything I wasn't doing and hadn't done with my 3 yr old to prepare him for preschool.  As I thought about it, these feelings of dread began to try to take up residence in my gut.  For the first time I can recall, I stepped out of myself and asked myself, "What is this thought doing for me?"  That particular thread of thought had no potential to produce anything good in my life.  I knew that, because I witnessed the negative impact of it physically, almost immediately.  Of coarse, it's not a "bad" thing to want your child prepared for school.  But our thought patterns can take something that is positive and turn it into something "toxic" in your body.  What do you do when you believe you should be considering and thinking about something, but when you think about it;  it causes dread to rise up in your body.  The first things to do