Tag: choose

Not a Victim

Jennifred Jones

I will not be a victim. I choose to step away from the path of disempowerment.

God has given me choice.

  • Choice what to think.
  • Choice whom to be around.
  • Choice to take back a mistake.
  • Choice to move away from bad situations.
  • Choice to make new and better friends.
  • Choice to ask myself hard questions.
  • Choice to do the hard but better thing.
  • Choice whose voices I’ll listen to.
  • Choice to think if what I’m hearing is really true.
  • Choice to choose what I think is best for me.

I take full responsibility for my life and the results of my choices.

  • I choose to read and learn and study and grow.
  • I choose to take better care of me.
  • I choose to start with one small step.
  • I choose to start today.
  • I choose not to be a victim.

Tug of War!

Jennifred Jones

It’s a game of tug of war in my mind very often!

This morning, thinking what to accomplish, I was envisioning a sewing project already begun…kind of got excited about working on it and imagining how it could look. All of a sudden another thought pulled on my string of thoughts…’you don’t want to begin today. It’s too hot and you don’t really have enough time…’ (none of which was true)

It is like a game of tug of war in my mind sometimes. Who will be the strongest? Which thought will win? Which thought will I allow to win? Which will I cheer on and give the victory to?

Here are some of the strongmen holding the rope… negative and positive.

  • I can or I can’t
  • Should I or shouldn’t I?
  • I want to get started, but don’t think I can.
  • I want to but I don’t want to.
  • I can do it, but perhaps no one will like it.
  • I can get started, but think I’ll wait til tomorrow.

Have you played these games? Sometimes I don’t want to play, but those thoughts keep tugging, trying to entice me into their game of senseless competition.

I want to win the game! Will I allow myself to?

It will be my decision, and I can choose to win.

I will choose to win!

How about you?

Green Pastures

Jennifred Jones

Peace, contentment, non-hurried pace, calmness, sunshine, wide-open spaces with trees surrounding green grasses…birds singing…

That’s what green pastures mean to me.

Green pastures is not only a real place, but I believe it is to be a place of mind. We are to have green pastures of mind.

It’s springtime right now. Let’s practice springtime in the mind. Wake up each and every day with feelings of green pastures in our mind. Cultivate green grasses of peace and contentment in your mind every morning. Remember and think of good things you have or are working on. Think of walking in the green pastures of calmness as you go about your morning. Find one routine that brings you happiness to repeat every morning, something you look forward to.

We don’t have to wake up in the thistle-patch or thorn tree of mind. We can choose to wake up and lie down in the green-pasture mind.

Oh there’s a lot of commotion going on in other dry and barren pasture lands, bugs, vultures, discontent, but I, we, can choose the green pasturelands to dwell in, dwell in peace, dwell in hope, dwell in contentment, dwell at a slower pace where we can hear the birds sing and notice the flowers.

It really is that simple. We can choose.

Choose with me to dwell in green-pastures of mind starting now.