An Important Key Facing Disabilities, Part 2 (TMF:2470)

Friday, October 25, 2024

Peace to Live By: An Important Key Facing Disabilities, Part 2 (TMF:2470) - Daniel Litton
(Tap to play feature or right-click to download)

I think in any type of situation such as this, it is important for anyone to give up the strong desire for what they want. Doesn’t seem right, does it? Give up the desire to be liked? Well, I think by having that strong desire it can actually prevent people from getting what they want. The Scripture tells us to cast our care on God, to not burden ourselves with the strong desire that people act a certain way towards us, for instance. If one was to say, “I give this care to God. I will be happy whether people like me and I will be happy even if they find me a burden…” by doing that, one can remove any outward pressure they are putting on others by showing outward signs of dissatisfaction. No one wants to be disabled. None of us wants to have problems. Yet, people face varying problems to varying degrees. And the best place I think one can find him or herself is to surrender what they want and to be happy in their relationship with God. None of us, at first, wants to hear that we need to surrender what we want. We don’t like that because we see others who have what we want, so we think, “Why can’t we have it?”

An Important Key Facing Disabilities, Part 1 (TMF:2469)

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Peace to Live By: An Important Key Facing Disabilities, Part 1 (TMF:2469) - Daniel Litton
(Tap to play feature or right-click to download)

I was reading a letter in a book recently wherein a child was writing about how he was disabled. Granted, this letter was about 50 years ago, so this was a while go. Anyhow, the child was asking the readers how he might become better liked by his community. He said he gets frustrated with the seeming burden that others in his family had to face when being around him. Also, that they don’t always want him to go everywhere and do everything with them. And he desperately wanted this to change. He obviously didn’t want to be a burden, but he also wanted people to like him. Yes, even though he had a disability that apparently didn’t allow him to walk, he still had the same mind all of us do. So what was this child’s solution, or anyone’s solution who finds themselves in this type of situation. Not wanting to be a burden, and yet at the same time wanting to be liked and included. I think in any type of situation such as this, it is important for anyone to give up the strong desire for what they want. Doesn’t seem right, does it? Give up the desire to be liked?

Solutions from the Outside? Part 2 (TMF:2468)

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Peace to Live By: Solutions from the Outside? Part 2 (TMF:2468) - Daniel Litton
(Tap to play feature or right-click to download)

Why does the answer to our problem always have to be outside of ourselves? Why can’t it be that we already know the answer, but that it is just not in the forefront of our thinking? What I like to do when I don’t know the answer to something is simply to make the statement to myself, “It’s okay if I figure this out, and it’s okay if I don’t.” What happens when I make this decision is that it removes any mental blocks I have subconsciously put before myself in trying to find the answer to something. Yes, when I decide this, probably at least half the time within minutes or some short period of time the answer will just come to my mind naturally. The solution will present itself inside of my mind, like in the form of a different perspective or a simple thing I have now realized. It has worked with big things and small things. We have this tendency when presented with problems to seek some ‘new’ information by which our problem will be solved. But often, I think we don’t even need ‘new’ information. Really, we already know the answer inside of us.

Solutions from the Outside? Part 1 (TMF:2467)

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Peace to Live By: Solutions from the Outside? Part 1 (TMF:2467) - Daniel Litton
(Tap to play feature or right-click to download)

We all have problems that we face on a daily basis, those problems which come to us out of nowhere. Generally, when we have an issue, there is the tendency to try to find the solution. We may pick up our Bibles and flip through the pages hoping that some verse will pop out at us. We might pick up a self-help book or two off of our bookshelf and try to find the answer. Or, perhaps, we’ll even through up a prayer to God, hoping that he will bring some aid or some person to us that will help us. It’s by these methods that we generally try to solve our problems. Yet, there are times when we don’t even have to go this far. What I mean is that often we already know the answer to our problem inside of ourselves. It’s just that, often times we don’t think that we do. We think we aren’t smart enough. We forget that we have the image of God within ourselves, that we were created as good and capable beings. Why does the answer to our problem always have to be outside of ourselves? Why can’t it be that we already know the answer, but that it is just not in the forefront of our thinking?

What is Good is Good to Us, Part 2 (TMF:2466)

Monday, October 21, 2024

Peace to Live By: What is Good is Good to Us, Part 2 (TMF:2466) - Daniel Litton
(Tap to play feature or right-click to download)

Sometimes we need to wait for the good that we like to come. Same can be true with making purchases. We can be lead to believe that because only two options are currently available, that we must purchase one of those options. But if those two things don’t match our lives, we should put off the purchase and wait until we find what we ‘know’ we truly like. This gives us happiness in the end. We can also fall into the trap of believing that what is truly good is out of our reach, that it has already been taken. However, I think this is usually deception that the mind tries to get us to believe in. While good things may have been taken, there are almost always good things that are currently or will be available later in time. To think that all the good is gone is hardly ever really the case. It’s just a mental deception that we often fall into. I know when I have waited on a lot of things that I almost always get what I want in the end. Sometimes I have to wait longer than I was planning, but by sticking to what I know I like, I win in the end. And this means I get to happy when I get it.