God Given Brain Power

When you upgrade your brain in any single context, you get a free upgrade in each and every context of your life.

When your brain enables you to feel confident and empowered when interacting with one person, your brain can enable you to feel this way in all contexts. If you can be creative in one area, your brain can be creative in many similar areas. If your brain can concentrate when you read one thing, you can concentrate in other areas as well. If you were able to cope well with a specific difficult person or difficult situation, it means that the inner resources that enabled you to do so are stored in your brain and your brain can access them with other people and situations. When you are able to create or access the states of happiness and joy at will, it means that your brain can do this over and over again in many other contexts

~ Rabbi Pliskin's
I really like this part:

 If you were able to cope well with a specific difficult person or difficult situation, it means that the inner resources that enabled you to do so are stored in your brain and your brain can access them with other people and situations.

 

You know how at times you feel like you are going around the mountain on the lesson train again???

 

This statement is wonderful to remember!!

 

If we were able to make it once ....we can do it again!

 

Most likely there is some refining that the Lord wants to do.

 

God made us able..... He created our brains to be used at our full capacity and potential...

 

Literally making nothing impossible to us.

 

We  just need the GOD - COMBINATION to open the lock called THE MIND OF CHRIST in us.

 

PS...guess what we have it...Tap into that today!

 

1 Corinthians 2:16 b     ....BUT WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.

 

 

 

F & L'er

Starla

Smile...life is Good!

Like a Light Bulb

Friendships are so important.

Having time with your friend makes you feel great….and it is a much needed thing as in all relationships.

A close friendship provides a safe place to talk out struggles and what you are learning in life, revealing where you are, how your heart is faring in this wild wild world.

Having someone to talk to and bounce thoughts off of gives you a type of mirror for your thoughts and can help you see where you are blocking your own truth with lies, distortion, or ignorance.

I am lucky and truly blessed to have an amazing best friend.

I believe God put her in my life for purpose and that purpose has caused much growth in who I am as a person. I have been through the ups and downs and ins and outs with her and we are closer today than when we began over 11 years ago.

Even if we are talking to other people at the time and the other walks in the room if we meet each others gaze we light up…life is just so much brighter when she is in it!! ( It really is like when you were a little kid and your friend came over and you ran off together to have some grand adventure, share secrets and make pinky swears and vows of never ending friendship)

Maybe you want a friendship like this….

Is there someone you are drawn to but also you have an internal fear that is keeping your from opening up to close relationships?? Reach out! You may be surprised. One foot at a time.

Maybe you have one …

Keep opening up in honesty and truth, building trust, willing to be vulnerable, and hang on tight. No relationship is without its rollercoaster moments. You will either value the relationship and work hard toward togetherness or you will drift apart.

Maybe yours is just beginning…

Feel the excitement and enjoy every moment of discovery with your new friend…build goodness, truth, love and honesty into the fabric of your friendship….and don't forget to share your excitement. Your friend needs to know how much they make you happy.

GOD MADE FRIENDS…WE NEED THEM!!

(whether we think we do or not…we do :0)

F & L’er

Starla

Dont block your Gifts!

FEAR

Some of things that breed fear...

rejection : will I be accepted??
pain: will this person hurt me like so and so did?
abuse: will I be used again?

These things cause distress to the soul.

Knowing that I can change how these affect me by choosing well what I think about them gives me HOPE.

How can we do this ...

BY RENEWING OUR MINDS!!

Direct your mind in a TRUTH direction....and see what happens!


F & L'er
Starla

do you hear what's there?

Friends help me sort through my emotions. They show me when I'm overreacting. They gently correct me when I'm lost in catastrophic thinking. They ground me. They love me. - Mary Demuth

 

I love this quote because it is so very true.

 

Friends truly are a gift from God. I am so very thankful that God has created FRIENDS. Not all people are FRIENDS. Most are acquaintances, people we barely know. A FRIEND is different - we totally let them in.

 

On this blog we have a little side bar acronym for friends

Fight for u
Respect u
Inspire u
Encourage u
Need u
Deserve u
See u

They fight for you. Fight for you to Love who you are because they do.

 

They respect you. Respect that you have your own opinions, ideas, wants and needs. They don't expect you to be like them or think like they do and they are ok with that.

 

They inspire you. Inspire you to reach higher, be better, look further because they tell you what they see in you and because you believe them when they speak - you try!

 

They encourage you. Encourage you to never give up on yourself or God.

 

They need you. Need you to do all those same things they do for you.

 

They deserve you. Deserve to see the true you. Deserve your honesty. Deserve all the things you hold back because God made them able to handle it - how do you know? because they are still there and you feel real when you are with them.

 

They see you. See your light shining within and call to it. See your faults and don't fault you. See your hurts and don't discount them but don't let you sit in them too long. See who you are and simply LOVE YOU.

 

On the Friendships of Love facebook page I posted this:

A friend is, as it were, a second self - Cicero  Tina and I were having a conversation about friendship. How when you are standing in front of your true friend, you don't try to hide or conceal yourself. It is within these true friendships that you see yourself clearly because your true friend (a second self) is a mirror for you to see the truth.

 

I got to thinking a little more about that mirror part... it is not that they mirror you (look like you or think like you) but that like a mirror in the bathroom, you walk in and take a look and you see what is there. A true friend allows you to be who you are. So while you are talking to them --you hear what's there-- you see what your heart looks like, you see what your mind looks like, you get a glimpse of what your soul looks like, you get some objectivity. You see parts of yourself you don't usually get to see because around other people you are not being fully you. A friend really is a wonderful gift.

 

I am so thankful for MINE!

 

Do you have one of those kinds of friends so that you can HEAR WHAT'S THERE?

 

F and L'er

Starla Smith
Smile...life is Good!

Shipwreck From Within

Shipwreck From Within

   A sample of Daily Encounter by Dick Innes

"Cling tightly to your faith in Christ, and always keep your conscience clear. For some people have deliberately violated their consciences; as a result, their faith has been shipwrecked."

1 "Victor Hugo, who is famous for his novel, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," also wrote a story called 'Ninety-Three.' It tells of a ship caught in a dangerous storm on the high seas. At the height of the storm, the frightened sailors heard a terrible crashing noise below the deck. They knew at once that this new noise came from a cannon, part of the ship's cargo, that had broken loose. It was moving back and forth with the swaying of the ship, crashing into the side of the ship with terrible impact. Knowing that it could cause the ship to sink, two brave sailors volunteered to make the dangerous attempt to re-tie the loose cannon. They knew the danger of a shipwreck from the [loose] cannon was greater than the fury of the storm."2

Life's certainly like that. Not always, but more often than not, it isn't the storms without that cause us the most problems, but the storms that rage within us;such as a spirit of bitterness, jealousy, pride, greed, etc., etc. Other "loose cannons" are unresolved hurt, anger, a lack of forgiveness, guilt, lust, and so on. These, if not confronted and resolved, can readily cause shipwreck of our relations, our faith, or even our life. Some "loose cannon people" in organizations also need to be brought under control before they destroy "the ship."

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, thank you for your Word that reminds me to live with a clear conscience. Please confront me with any issue in my life that could, if unresolved, lead to shipwreck of my faith, relationships, and even of my life. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus' name, amen."

1. 1 Timothy 1:19 (NLT).
2. Brett Blair, Cited on www.eSermons.com.