"This Could Change Your Life"

written by Rob Bailes

The photo attached is a picture of something that is hanging on my refrigerator. I recreated the copy that was given to me in 1985 by a marriage counselor. What he told me that day changed me for the rest of my life!

What he told me was that we all have negative thoughts but we have a choice to change this to a positive thought before we open our mouths or take any action. That is what the arrow represents in between the two triangles. Once we have thought about how to change our thought and we do, then we can act on it and we will end up with positive results.

I don't think anyone anyone really wants negative results in their life but sometime we don't even know when we are thinking negative. The counselor was Kevin Myers and Kevin showed me how we subconsciously pick up our parents habits. Though two people who are negative and positive may balance each other in a relationship, when left to themselves the negative one will typically create negative results.

Kevin Myers may not have known it at the time but he actually pointed me in the direction that changed my life beginning the day that he told me to place these posters around my house where I could see them. I left them there for a couple of months. That was long enough for me to change my habit of thinking negative and I saw it in the results of everything I did after that time. Guess what, I have put them up again! I'll admit to you all that as long as I am on this earth that the problems of this world will keep us thinking negative and acting on these thoughts. I believe we are told to think on things that are good and pure and this exercise will help us all to do just that! God bless you and your family this weekend!

Note: If you cannot read the words in the picture; it says "Negative Thought" in the triangle on the left; "Negative Action" in the circle on the left and "Negative Results" in the square. The right side is the same but substitute "Positive" in place of the word "Negative".

Words of Wisdom

Phillipians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.