HEART'S CRY

"What I know but never think," was how the Circle of Security Parenting founders describe state of mind.   And why does it matter? For me, this is personal.  I seem to have a hidden switch that flips when I'm making progress in my spiritual, physical, career and relational goals. It seems to say, "Hey, wait a minute, this is not what we know and how we do things, let's go back to the way we were."     WHAT????  I'm a new creature!  I don't have to live this way.  I am supposed to make every thought obedient to Christ. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, "The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.  On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.  We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." The problem is...I don't even know my own thoughts.  I don...

Saturday was cold and dreary.  Outside and in. My heart was tired. My mind was tired. My spirit and my body. What was I doing here anyway, I whined. I pulled out an old quilt made out of the "work clothes" of an older matriarch and pulled the heavy fabric over me.  Tattered would be an understated way to describe it.   "I should fix this," I thought.  On second thought, "I could fix this," as I try to change the way I speak.  Running my hands over thick squares of polyester and  loose squares of cotton. My Mom's voice of reverence sneaks out, "if only this fabric could talk."  I appreciate her perspective more and more. I pull the heavy quilt over my head. "Stupid quilt," I mutter.  Continuing the complaining I add, "it's just like my life.  All tattered and pieced together.  Bits of this and that.  This strength or that skill tied together with...  with what?" Can you tell I'm in a frus...

Merriam-Webster defines mindset as a "a  particular way of thinking  a person's attitude  or  set of opinions  about something.  A mental attitude or  inclination." Mindsets are beliefs.   Robert Sternberg, the present- day guru of  intelligence, writes "that the major factor  in whether people achieve expertise is not  some  fixed  prior ability, but purposeful  engagement." I am reading, Mindset, The New Psychology of  Success" by Carol S. Dweck.  Dr. Dweck states,  "What are the consequences of thinking that  your  intelligence  or personality is something  you can  develop, as opposed to something that  is a fixed,  deep-seated trait?" P. 4 "Instead, as you begin to understand the fixed  and  growth mindsets, you will see exactly how  one thing  leads to ano...