Mindfulness: Positive Thinking

Heading into two months of sheltering in place, I must remain intentionally mindful of staying positive about next steps and the outcome of the Covid-19 pandemic. We will get through this, Friends. It won't be easy and it may not be a rapid recovery, but I will prevail and so will you. 

Being intentionally mindful, consider great truths supported by the greatest Truth: God's Word.  

What others see as your 'limitation' today is only a limitation if you think it is. God doesn't see any of us as 'limited.'  God sees us a having unlimited potential.  When we begin to see ourselves the way God sees us, there are no limits to what we can do! 

We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which 

God has prepared in advance for us to do.  

Ephesians 2:10 NIV

Samuel Johnson said, "Clear your mind of can't." 

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." 

Philippians 4:13 KJV

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. 

....let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. 

And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,

Hebrews 12:1 NIV

You can't go back and make a brand new start, but you can start toay and make a brand new ending.  

- Walt Criswell 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive 

us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.  

1 John 1:9 Quest Study Bible 

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy 

.....unless you change and become like little children 

you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 

Matthew 18:3 NIV 

Learn by experience - preferably other people's. 

All these things happened to them as examples - as object lessons to us - 

to warn us against doing the same things. 

1 Corinthians 10:11 TLB 

In this life when you face less than optimal conditions and situations,  you will either become a criticizer, a traumatizer or a maximizer…the choice is yours.  - Dr. I. V. Hilliard 

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, 

“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, 

plans to give you hope and a future. - Jeremiah 29:11 NIV

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, 

that I have set before you, life and death, the 

blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, 

you and your descendents.  - Deuteronomy 30:19 NASB

Mindfully, count it all joy! 

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