Here & Now 2016 Editions October 2016 | Page 28

A STRONG FINANCES MIND Harmful thoughts come and go like the waves on the seashore. Sometimes they’re strong, sometimes they’re weak, but they don’t cease. Or do they? P eople all over the world struggle with this part of the body: the mind. It’s like a machine you own that is out of control and is taking the lead in your life. You want to think positive, but your mind is simply resistant. I’ve struggled with my thoughts in the past. One in particular really hit me hard, and when I think of it, I feel such a fool to have given in to it. Someone I aspired to be like had realised that she needed saving with regards to her spiritual life. I was shocked, firstly because she was and still is a woman full of grace, and secondly, if she entangled in thoughts that did not needed help in this area, what make any sense. It was then that about me? I started to question them. The funny and refreshing thing was At that time, I was young, and that I had spent the whole month I was still learning how to be a searching my heart and spiritual good wife and a good servant of life before God, and I had found God. When I heard the news, I nothing that could even hint a started to have doubts about my problem. Yet I had doubts. own spiritual life, thinking that I probably needed help, too. If we listen to the rubbish thoughts that come into our minds, we I was a fulfilled woman who may lose our faith and sense of soon turned into a distressed direction. I learnt this the hard woman. Then one day my mother way. Now my thoughts do not explained a point to me. She control me. Instead, I question helped me realise that I had been them. I use my intelligent faith. If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place” 28