Living With the Lights On

How Can We Learn Best? Whenever we make changes or create new habits, we must learn to think in new ways.  Our old ways of thinking will re-create our past.  Our future is built one new thought at a time.  Learning is required.   If we already knew what we needed, we would have the results we hope for.  So, how can we learn best?  "The beginning of learning is being secure in our acceptance." - Graham Cooke For it was always in his perfect plan  to adopt  us as his delightful children, through our union with Jesus, the Anointed One, so that his tremendous love that cascades over us would glorify his grace —for the same love he has for his Beloved One, Jesus, he has for us. And this unfolding plan brings him great pleasure! - Eph 1:5-6 One of the biggest lies we fall for is that we aren't good enough.  This deception keeps us stuck in old ways of thinking when we begin making changes.   The bes...

What Do We Sell Ourselves On? As humans, we are faced with making decisions every day and many times every day.   When we decide we want to improve our self-care by choosing foods with high nutritional value, we can expect there to be an internal conflict.  Why is that? Why is it that there is a part of us that wants to sell us on junk?  What can we do to keep from selling ourselves a regret?  First, let's talk about the Why -  Our heart (desire) tells our mind that we want it.  Then our heart convinces our mind that we need  it.  It's not hard to justify a need.   It sounds like this: " I just need to take the edge off."  " I deserve it after a day like today." " I need a break." Then we find ourselves with thoughts like, "I don't understand why I did what I did." It's our heart.  “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,      and desperately wicked...