We talked about this in the car on the way to church Sunday. She knows how to keep things simple. I know how to keep things complicated. We both know how to keep things negative.
Negative comes natural for me. It's always laying right there on the table in front of me, and if my thinking's not pointed at something else, making it complicated, then it will point itself there at the negative on the table and I'll make that complicated. Mmmm, complex negativity--now there's a recipe for a really unhappy guy.
Do you know you have control over what you think about? Do you know how powerful that is?
I don't have to just let my thinking go where it wants (and it seems to always want to go negative). I can point my thinking at whatever I want. I may have to keep pointing it if it wanders, but I can do that, no matter what else is going on. The thinking comes automatic; the pointing I have to do on purpose.
I can point it at what's behind the curtain.
I can point it at what's going on inside me.
And I can point it at someone who's always loving me.
