In the Quiet

It is quiet.  My family is asleep.  This is when I have to make a choice about what I will listen to.  In the quiet, my most unlovely, mean, ugly thoughts enter my brain.  But tonight, I am about to sit down and do something I want more than anything - to open the word and spend time with my heavenly Father working on a special project with Him.  He and I are trading my most negative thoughts for the ones that He wants me to know as truth in my life.
We all have them - these negative voices in our heads that tell us we are not good enough, we have nothing to offer and we are utter failures.  I know I am not alone in this.  I am so glad to know that I am not the only one that has to fight the negative voice and that I do not have to fight them alone.  

I believe in the power of positivity - even if sometimes that means the only positive thing you can possibly say is, "This positively sucks, Lord."  And sometimes that is okay.  It is not okay if it is that way every single day, but occasionally it does suck and you have to own it to move past it.  I believe that every day is a gift.  Every breath we are given is another opportunity to say something wonderful to someone - including yourself. 

So how do you change those patterns and thoughts that you have been hearing in your head from such an early age?  How do you take a negative and turn it into something worthy of the purpose you were designed for?  When you feel utterly defeated and incapable, what do you do with that?  When you want to reach up and out, but you cannot find a ray of hope or anything that tells you that you can do it, what do you do then?

I can tell you that in that moment, in the quiet spaces of your life, that is the moment that defines who you are at your very core. 

For me and my house (my brain) I will choose the Lord.  I am choosing during the quiet times to listen to the real truth.  I have failed, but I am NOT a failure because God has made me a successful masterpiece.  He is showing me the scriptures that prove this and so far I am up to two full pages that I can pray over my mind and my thoughts reminding myself that the God of the universe has a plan greater than me thinking that I am something I am not - a failure.

I pray you too will find a quiet space and find out what your most negative thought that you say to yourself everyday is, and ask God what it is that He has to say about that thought and find the truths that show you who you really are to Him and to the world around you.  And be sure to tell me what He says so we can encourage one another in our journey called life...because that is what God designed our community of believers to do!

Find joy and peace in the quiet instead of the chaos and insanity.  Let God restore the peace in your quiet.