Concentrating on the Positives not the Negatives.

http://www.amareway.org

I love this site and this lady, I have only been reading her blog for the last 2 days, but I am already hooked and in love with her beauty and happiness for life.
http://10stepstofindingyourhappyplace.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html
She has 10 steps to finding your happy place, please click on Galen's blog link above to view. I am going to start with one of them this week. Hope you do not mind Galen Pearl.
Gratitude, I am going to try to live, breath, read and write about it the same as Galen did, see if it has any significant improvement on my negative feeling and train of thought.
Wish me luck starting with church tomorrow. x
Continuation......


Found this great site which discusses Positives taking place of Negatives. Thought I might share with you. http://www.bible-knowledge.com/renewing-of-your-mind/

"Once you know the Bible tells you to have self-control over your bad temper (just going to butt in here, boy oh boy oh boy, I have a terrible temper and my children and husband gets the brunt of it) and over your condescending and critical attitudes – then it will be your job at this point to make some kind of concerted effort to actually “put away” these kinds of negative and destructive qualities from your personality." Bible.knowledge.com

Physical and Mental Abuse in childhood

http://dleigh1509.xanga.com

I came across this website tonight and found it very true, while I am not quite ready to deal with these issues as yet I thought the following words describe what I seem to try and tackle all the time.

Rossocomedy states on the Daily Strength Webiste "Good grief Charlie Brown! Punishment of children with beatings and humiliation like this do more than inflict pain on the body, they strip away self esteem, and inflict a lifetime sentence of damage to the victim"
I never want to be classed as a victim but I would so agree with the stripping away of self esteem, boy, oh boy, oh boy, I so have issues with self esteem. I can totally understand why now after reading this article.
http://www.dailystrength.org/health_blogs/cyndi/article/long-term-effects-of-physical-abuse-and-severe-corporal-punishment
It will be very interesting to see what Christianity has to say about this subject, another time perhaps.

How I feel today!

This is all I have to say about today and how I feel. I will explain why another day!! Thought this was quite appropriate. makes me feel much better.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
New International Version (NIV)
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

Please God, I pray, guide me and give me the strength to learn patience, not an easy task for me and my soul, but I am learning fast. A Men.