Tuesday, September 1, 2015

How to Get Free of Worry

Are you a worrier? If so, you are very skillful at using your imagination.

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 What? I can hear you shouting now. What are you talking about, Dr. MaryAnn?

 I’m saying that a girl who worries is very adept at using her imagination. The only problem is she’s using it in the wrong way.

 You see, God gave each of us an imagination. What do we do with it? Well, with our imagination we imagine.  Simple, huh? :)  

The imagination is that part of us that pictures all sorts of things.  It can picture good things, or it can picture bad things. What we picture with our imagination is up to us.

 When we worry, we are using our imagination to picture negative things. 

 You may feel that you have no control over what you see in your imagination. The truth is, you do have total control over what you picture in your imagination.  But you have to train your imagination to obey you.

 How? By doing what Jesus says to do in Philippians 4:4-8:

 "Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.”

 Did you get that? Jesus said to think about “the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.” 

 I’m throwing out a Gabriel Girls challenge: For the next hour, make yourself think about the best things in your life, not the worst; the beautiful things in your life, not the ugly.  Think about things you can praise and not things you may want to curse.  

 After your experiment, post a comment to tell us what you learned. If you mess up, no worries (pun intended :).  Start over again for a shorter amount of time.  Eventually, thinking good thought will become a habit you will never want to give up.

 Love in the Lion of Judah!

 Dr. MaryAnn

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