ALL CREDIT GOES TO GOD WITH GRATITUDE

How we see will largely determine what we see and whether it can give us joy or make us pull back with an emotionally stingy and resistant response. -- Fr Richard Rohr

There. To me, that is a fair affirmation of the power of our thoughts...of positive thinking, in fact.

Positive thinking keeps our mind peaced, and a peaced mind keeps our heart, soul, body and brain ready, willing and looking to do God's will, God's way. We do not consciously know how, we just know it does, and we only know by doing it...while keeping our thoughts spiritual in nature.

More often than not, we confuse positive thinking with thoughts of winning. There is no winning, no losing, in a peaced world. There is only an attitude of gratitude aiding in our unconscious desire to do for the benefit of another.

Interestingly, if questioned about actually doing for the benefit of another, we'd deny it...deny it by saying how we wish we were that good and decent a person. That thinking, too, we must beware of for it can lead to false modesty which is ego in a pretty dress.   

It is only right that inner goodness is unacknowledged by us for it is unrecognized by us...all credit goes to God.

Thank you.