Capture Unchecked Thoughts

Ever get something stuck in your mind?  The more it rolls around in your head the more you think on it. All the possibilities and ramifications grow worse the longer you think on it. Wow what was a moehill is quickly becoming a mountain and it is all in my mind. A trickle can do that. If it continues it may turn into a stream, and then a brook, then maybe a river. Before you know it, you’re dealing with an ocean of unchecked thoughts.  Capture those unchecked thoughts.... don't let them roam around in your brain till they drop into your heart. 

Has this ever happened to you? I’d like to say I have it all in hand and I stop those thoughts dead in their tracks, but it took awhile for me to recognize what was going on and then turn in another direction. Sometimes it still does. I depend on the Holy Spirit to alert me. 

A pearl to string:  Scripture has the only satisfying answers for me: "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." (2 Corinthians 10:5) "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he..." (Proverb 23:7) 

I kept this poem framed and hanging on the wall in our kitchen to remind me often how very important our role as parents was to the future of our children.  

Twas a sheep not a lamb that strayed away
In the parable Jesus told,
A grown-up sheep that strayed away
From the ninety and nine in the fold. 

And why for the sheep should we seek
And earnestly hope and pray?
Because there is danger when sheep go wrong;
They lead the lambs astray. 

Lambs will follow the sheep, you know,
Wherever the sheep may stray.
When sheep go wrong, it won’t take long
Till the lambs are as wrong as they. 

And so with the sheep we earnestly plead
For the sake of the lambs today,
For when sheep are lost, what a terrible cost
The lambs will have to pay! -C. C. Miller 

Capture those unchecked thoughts!

You are loved,

                Lyndi