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Recapturing Our Childlike Mindset, Part 2 (TMF:2380)

Friday, June 21, 2024
Peace to Live By: Recapturing Our Childlike Mindset, Part 2 (TMF:2380) - Daniel Litton
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       The truth is, deep down, if we were surrendered enough, if we were trusting in God enough, if we had enough faith, we really could live like a child all the time. Yes, certainly so. Isn’t that what we were told that we are supposed to be doing? As my mind goes back through the Gospels, yes, I do recall a saying from the Great Master in regard to this. I am sure you do to. It is how he told us to live. In fact, he said it is how we must be. Remember that? I cringe because I don’t think any of us really models this, at least consistently. Why are we passing on this? The truth of all reality, a core truth to our whole happiness, is simply this: “We have everything we need, and we always will.” Our whole lives, though, become a battle against that statement, that dictum. That is because we don’t believe it. We don’t think it will be true for us. The truth is, though, that it is true for us, if we are in personal relationship with God, if we have accepted Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior.

Recapturing Our Childlike Mindset, Part 1 (TMF:2379)

Thursday, June 20, 2024
Peace to Live By: Recapturing Our Childlike Mindset, Part 1 (TMF:2379) - Daniel Litton
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       It’s funny. I was thinking earlier today that the best time in my life I think was when I was four or five years old. “Why is that?” someone might ask. Well, it’s because all you do at that age is have fun, right? You play, you enjoy your toys, you enjoy siblings and friends, you spend time with your parents, you go to fun events, etc. You don’t even know that bills exist (usually). It’s just a fun age to be, at least, for a lot of people; I know it was for me. Before school starts, it is just sheer happiness. I loved this time of my life so much that I don’t think I would mind being this age for all of eternity. It would be cool to be five years old in Heaven. But jumping out of that, let’s get back to reality. “Yes, of course,” someone will say. “What you just talked about isn’t reality.” Well, actually, I would kind of beg the differ. The truth is, deep down, if we were surrendered enough, if we were trusting in God enough, if we had enough faith, we really could live like a child all the time. Yes, certainly so. Isn’t that what we were told that we are supposed to be doing?

Solutions in a Negative Mindset? Part 3 (TMF:2378)

Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Peace to Live By: Solutions in a Negative Mindset? Part 3 (TMF:2378) - Daniel Litton
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       Then we find that we are afraid to make decisions in general because of our track record of being wrong so many times in the past. And it’s all because we didn’t make our decisions in a proper mindset to being with. What is the answer then? Deep down, I think a lot of us know when we are about to make a decision that is bad. We have that little underlying feeling that something isn’t quite right. We have a lack of peace. So, what we need to do in these situations is stop and say, “Nah, I’m not making any decision right now. I am going to wait.” And we say that even if it is something we ‘feel’ needs to be decided right now. I would rather come to a ‘late,’ past due decision, then come to an incorrect one because I was forced by some artificial deadline that usually I have created within my mind. I know when I have taken this approach, that six hours later, or whatever it is, I see things totally differently, and then I know what decision I should make. The solution has presented itself. Now, I can be happy.

Solutions in a Negative Mindset? Part 2 (TMF:2377)

Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Peace to Live By: Solutions in a Negative Mindset? Part 2 (TMF:2377) - Daniel Litton
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       This is because we made the decision based on those clouded thought processes. It is like taking wind-measurements in the middle of the storm and expecting them to still be relevant after the storm passes. We know they aren’t going to have any relevance for the clear conditions whatsoever. So, why do we want do that ourselves, to make a decision when we aren’t thinking straight? That will lead us to pain later, not happiness. What happens is when we have the practice of doing this over and over, of making decisions from a wrong mindset, we find that we end up being wrong a lot of times—ending up with wrong decisions. Then what happens? Well, because we now have a track record of making bad decisions we begin not to trust our own, personal decision making abilities. We start to question ourselves all the time, and develop more and more fear inside of ourselves. Then we find that we are afraid to make decisions in general because of our track record of being wrong so many times in the past. And it’s all because we didn’t make our decisions in a proper mindset to being with.

Solutions in a Negative Mindset? Part 1 (TMF:2376)

Monday, June 17, 2024
Peace to Live By: Solutions in a Negative Mindset? Part 1 (TMF:2376) - Daniel Litton
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       We all know that when we have a negative mindset, we aren’t thinking straight. I mean that we aren’t thinking with right flowing thoughts. In this case, we are thinking bad or the worst about things. We have given up the Apostle’s Paul faith and hope. We aren’t having the faith that Jesus told us to have. So, just think about it then. In this kind of mental condition, why would we want to try to find a solution to something? Certainly we shouldn’t try to do that. It won’t work. It’s like trying to have a picnic in the middle of a thunderstorm. It’s just not going to turn out well. When we make a decision that is from a negative mindset, we will find it to be wrong later when the negative clouds have cleared away. This is because we made the decision based on those clouded thought processes. It is like taking wind-measurements in the middle of the storm and expecting them to still be relevant after the storm passes. We know they aren’t going to have any relevance for the clear conditions whatsoever.