I spelled "write" like "right" in my last blog...

Let's try this again shall we?

You know what I've realized recently? How much time I spend THINKING.

and this thought...makes me think (redundant) about what it is I THINK about.

I've recently realized that a lot of the things that take up my time thinking are NOT the things I want to.

Now, hold your horses. I promise I don't spend my time thinking about sinful things. I mean sure everybody struggles with a bad thought now and again but it is not what I am referring to here at all.
What I am referring to is how much time I spend thinking about things that don't matter.

I worry a lot.
I spend way to much time thinking about the future when I have a perfectly great NOW right in front of me.
I wonder what other people are doing all the time.
AND there are a few things that have been on my mind lately that I won't publish here but they basically just include friend drama which is never worth the time to dwell on.

I'm going to try to get back into the habit I was getting into in the Fall and beginning of Winter. I read somewhere that the best way to keep bad thoughts out is to fill up our thoughts with pleasant thoughts fixated on God.

Philippians 4:8 says
Finally my brothers, whatever is true, whatever is pure, whatever is noble, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent and praiseworthy think about such things.

Worrying isn't nobly, or lovely, and I certainly don't admire those who spend their time worrying. In fact the Bible says worrying is a sin in Romans. everything that does not come from faith is sin. God also promises us he has it under control in Matthew. In one of my favorite passages in the Bible.
Matthew 6: 25-27
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
Love it. Simply love it.

God goes on to address thinking about the future in the same passage. Do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough troubles of it's own.

Now, wondering about what other people are doing is different. I wouldn't say it is untrue or non admirable or any of that but it is unnecessary. Just saying it shouldn't take as much time as it does.

And finally conflicts with friends-that is not true, that is not pure. That is not noble and it is certainly not lovely or admirable. Yet I let it take up all this mind time. Time I could spend thanking God for things and talking to my creator.
It may sound ridiculous but when you think about it, why are we not engulfed in thoughts of out amazing God all the time? How come we don't get in our car and say a quick "thanks God for this car that I can use to get around in." How come seeing a sad person in the store doesn't automatically bring up a prayer of "Lord just be with them for whatever it is they are hurting over." Little things in life deserve so much more time and thought than we give them. I don't know about you, but I personally spend far to much time thinking about big things that I have no control over when I COULD be thinking about the little things I am blessed with everyday. I could be talking to God throughout my every day if I just made a little bit more room for him in my head by throwing out some of the junk that I let take upspace in there.

So that's my current challenge for myself. Philippians 4:8