Does God exist? Can a life of change happen? An open mind is like a parachute it allows you to gracefully fall or stay afloat. A closed mind is like a closed parachute; you will quickly fall and hit hard. Open or closed there are choices that are influenced by society and family that produce freedom or chains. A life of change can happen to the one who believes anything is possible.Change is hard for most people. It pushes one out of the comfortable nest and with open or closed wings, we spread them to fly. Sometimes the risk and the fear of the unknown is the fire that will temper the mind like steel on an anvil. It will either weaken or strengthen you in the process of becoming into something useful.
A life of change is possible. The fundamentals we seem to have forgotten, or we have become desensitized to life, is that we may change every day to adapt to the curve balls or roller coaster rides in our lives. The attitude one possesses will determine if they are on the anvil or the potter’s wheel.
Do you have the mind of steel that it takes fire, water and a pounding to shape you into something useful? Do you have the mind of clay that can be shaped gently and tested through fire into something useful? Change is possible it depends upon the rationalization of your mind.
Rationalization can be a foreign element that does not strengthen you, but weakens you. I use to be damaged by churches and my parents who want to hold on to tradition or doctrine and are closed by looking further into the word and looking at if from a different perspective. Therefore, I was the steel on the anvil. I was hardened and didn’t want to change. Sometimes life is the storm that produces the new changes we need. I found God that has allowed me to start my life over. I have no regrets in the new life who is seen through the eyes of my Savior. Change was needed in order to be uplifted from darkness that I thought was the light in my life at the time.
Change is an acronym of C(hallenge) H(ammering) A(ttitudes) N(ot) G(etting) E(xcellence). There are challenges which we are faced with in our lives who tend to hammer away at our attitudes that are like baby birds not wanting to fly. Our attitudes do not want to move towards becoming excellent, and we remain complacent.
I want to challenge you in your thinking about life. Whether you believe in God, whether you feel depressed, and feel life has the best of you; whatever the situation may arise from you can do it. You may think life has you beat, and you feel chained into non existence. Release yourself from these chains of doctrine, traditions and open your life to realize, “God has provided us with great promises. It is these promises that will enable to share in His nature and escape the corruption of cruelty of human desires that has made the world a not so nice place to live” (2 Peter 1:4, Hudgins paraphrase).
Change is a challenge. Are you up for a challenge? Quit feeding your mind the bag of potato chips that weigh you down into a fatness of thoughts that you do not have the energy to move. Challenges moves, motivates, measures, molds and hammer attitudes that do not want to be motivated into an excellence of a better life. Challenge your thoughts. Instead of asking what is wrong with it, or it does not exist then do the opposite. What is right about doing this? Prove the existence. Soon you will be a mind that is a parachute ready to jump into unknown territories and experience the freedom from chains.
By Faith (Focusing Attitude In Trusting Him)
