Do we live as we think?

Did you know...

 

... that today is I Love To Write Day? http://www.ilovetowriteday.org/

Founded in 2002, this day is designed to be the world's largest party for writers.

Celebrate today by writing something: a poem, a greeting card, an essay, a love letter, anything your heart desires!

I wrote this today. I sent it to my accountability partner.  He an I meet each week for breakfast, and talk about a variety of subjects; many times the subject is on the poor and how to help them, and also the wealthy, and how they came to be wealthy. Great subjects, don't you think?

This below is mainly just me thinking out loud, and I wanted to share it with you,  since it's I love to write day!

In this quote: "The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives." -- Vaughan Quinn

 

Hmmmmm

 

How do you think that applies to us as Christians? And how does it apply to the poor?  You see, in our pursuit of our lives; our vocation, our relationship with Christ, our families, our mental state and our health,  it’s not what we make that’s important – it’s what we become. We should not ask of ourselves, what am I making, we should ask: what am I becoming?

 

Are we becoming more like Christ or more like the world? Solomon asked for wisdom and became very wise. He attained money, evidently lots of sex, possessions, and much power and he said it was all vanity.

 

I believe too that our life will become what our thoughts make of it. I believe that we become pretty much what think about all day long, and I believe that as a man thinks in his heart - so is he. And I believe that we become like the people we associate with.

So then; in my view, we must be careful what we think, and careful who we associate with.

 

In your opinion, how does all this fit in with the fact that you, and I, have more money in our hands in a month than the poor have in a year?

Have our thoughts made us rich?
Did we get more “breaks” than they?
Did God just see fit to “bless” us more?

Were we just lucky?

Did we just work harder? Was that it? However some people work hard their whole lives and wind up very, very broke. Some are born rich and are rich their whole lives through, and it's not because of anything at all that they have done on their own; Sam Walton’s kids, Bill Gates kids, The Melons, Rockefeller's, the Vanderbilt’s, the Kennedy's etc etc.

 

“Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives." -- Vaughan Quinn

 

So what do you think?

 

 

Mr C