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”
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