Outside forces can impact rivers; obstructions can cause the current to divert and cut channels in a new direction. The Mississippi River once changed course because of the New Madrid earthquake in 1811. It has been said that beavers are “ecosystem engineers.” When they build dams, they create brand new ponds and divert the way rivers flow. If a little animal such as the beaver can divert powerful rivers and create safe places for themselves, do you think we can too?
What is your plan for caring for and influencing the direction of your own river of thoughts?
In this podcast, I follow up on the last podcast with some practical ways we can proactively influence our thought life.
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Please join me bi-weekly for a thought-provoking journey through significant questions that will help you coach yourself and the people you love. Thoughtful questions from the right heart motives bring honor and value to our relationships and help us live out a life congruent with what we say we believe before the Lord and others. They help our loved ones do the same.
I plan to continue writing my blog bi-weekly and produce a podcast of the previous week’s content on alternate weeks.
Would you be willing to listen, rate, and subscribe to it? It’s on Anchor, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
Our river of thoughts must be respected as a source that can be both potentially beautiful and potentially dangerous. How can we seek to make it more and more beautiful? And what if we struggle to do this? Find encouragement to take your thought life seriously as well as encouragement if you struggle with consistently caring for it.
I hope you enjoy the podcast!
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Hum… interesting. Pausing to reflect my friend. I’m going to have to check out your podcast, it sounds great.
Visiting today from IMM#23
I’d love for you to check it out! Thanks!
Keeping our thoughts on Jesus when life pummels us with difficult circumstances is challenging. This podcast sounds like an important one!
Thanks, Jeanne!
I’m all about the thought life! It is so important to fix our thoughts on good things. Philippians 4:8 and Matthew 7:33 are benchmark scriptures for me. I will definitely check out your podcast.
Our thinking impacts so much of our life, doesn’t it?
Many people think that we can’t take control of our thoughts and it’s true that we can’t will ourselves to stop thinking about something. But we can replace one pattern of thinking with another though it will take effort and, for me, God’s help.
Yes, Donna, it takes great effort and intentionality…and the enabling work of the Holy Spirit! Blessings to you as you yield to Him.
Oh not to be swept away by that river of thoughts, checking the podcast out!
Thanks for checking it out, Donna!