Tag: loss of control

There but for the Grace of God – Go I

Jennifred Jones

Mom said this to me frequently in my growing up years, when I was tempted to be critical of someone else.

So easy to get out of focus in life and fault find, blame, criticize…really it probably stems from insecurity, fear, loss of control, feelings of inadequacies on our part (the last one was a big one for me as I grew up). ‘Am I gonna make it?’

If I could just rest in the good plan God had for me…although I didn’t know it fully then…still don’t – but staying confident in who I was made to be and looking out for others instead of myself all the time, life became easier. My mind had less to think/worry about, and I was gonna be OK.

So far it has worked and is still working decades later.

How about you?

You! Think!!!

Jennifred Jones

So often we are told what to think instead of being encouraged to think!

You have been given a good sound mind. You have many, many good ideas and plans inside of you waiting to be thought about and brought to pass.

Are we afraid of ourselves? Afraid to let our mind wander into new dimensions different than what we’re accustomed to?

I’m not talking about freaky-stuff thinking, but sometime just turn off the TV, the uTube, and let your own mind think something good, something you would like to think about but were maybe afraid to think into…

Sometimes, I fall for the trap where I get so involved in what other people are saying about a particular area of interest, that I stop thinking for myself… how to solve it, how to make it better… and instead listen to everyone else’s thoughts. Then my mind gets all frazzled what to do. I have to stop, and come out of that cloud into the clearing of my own thoughts.

We let ourselves develop patterns of behavior by allowing other sources to tell us what we should be thinking, what we should be doing, how to spend our time…what if we want to think and do something differently?

It is not wrong to think differently, to have a new idea, to want something apart from the status quo, to question what you’re doing or being told to do. That is part of our individual God-given autonomy.

Many great thinkers have turned into great doers.

The other side of the ‘thinking coin’ is some/too many are afraid of letting others think or voice their opinions/ideas. They fear change, loss of control, power, prestige. Their own insecurities try to quell the impact of another. Don’t give them that right over you.

What have I wanted to think about, but didn’t because I was afraid, or didn’t think I could, or should, or somebody might not approve?

Chart your course, begin to think for yourself again!