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A thought by John Ortberg from his book, The Me I Want to Be (p. 113). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) It really is, isn’t it? John says, “You don’t need to know more from the Bible; you just need to do what you already know. “We don’t become doers on our own, of course. As we read the Scripture, we ask the Spirit to help us understand what to do in response, and the intersection of what the Scriptures teach and how our lives unfold will give us a never-ceasing stream to actually do what Jesus says. And when we forget, another chance will come along. ” He goes on, “I was picking up a prescription one Saturday afternoon before a church service, and because I was in a hurry, I had called the night before to make sure it would be there. But when I got there, the man behind the counter told me it wouldn’t be ready until the next week. Apparently. there was a mix-up between the medical people, the insurance peo

A thought by John Ortberg from his book, The Me I Want to Be (p. 97). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) I know, I know, we have problems with thinking sometimes that we have no worth, that we are nothing.  And I can't change.  But think of this!!! John says, “Before you were born, your body produced about 200 billion neurons, giving you the power to think and react. You had such an embarrassment of riches that by the time you were born, you had killed off around 100 billion of those neurons, and you have never even missed them. Between your second month in the womb and your second birthday, your body was producing 1.8 synapses per second. And you weren’t even tired! ” He goes on, “Your thoughts have enormous power over your life. Researchers have found that tennis players can improve their backhands simply by rehearsing them mentally . Neurons that will change you are firing in your mind. Over time, those pa

A thought by John Ortberg from his book, The Me I Want to Be (p. 91). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Ok, you don’t have the habit of brushing your teeth, but you get the point, don’t you? If not, here it is, John says, “After a while, we don’t even think about them. We get so used to bitter thoughts or anxious thoughts or selfish thoughts that we don’t even notice what we are thinking about. “One of the great barriers to a flourishing mind is sometimes called mindlessness. My body is at the breakfast table with my family, but my mind isn’t. It is ruminating over my problems — a repetitive, anxious, dull, low-grade obsession with tasks and problems. I am absentminded ; my mind has gone AWOL. Other people can tell I am not fully present because my face is less alive and responsive. I talk less, and when I do say something, it is superficial and terse. I don’t do this on purpose. It simply becomes a habit of my m