No time for Quick Takes this week but I wanted to pop in share some resources which have been such a blessing personally over this past year.  I found Joyce Meyers' site last spring and her motto, Do it Afraid became an anthem of sorts which has enabled me to push past fear and break into a whole new life, doing things I had long ago stopped hoping to be able to do. 

Battlefield of the Mind has been an excellent – formative even – read. Walking through the bookstore this week I saw her book Power Thoughts on the shelf which is arranged thematically to deal with meeting challenged presented by life circumstances, other people and our own negative thinking.  I snagged that too.  Similar premises – you become what you think as Prov. 23:7 says.  We program ourselves moment by moment by our self talk.  Harnessing and redirecting that flow has far reaching impact.  These titles go a long way towards empowering a person to 'take every thought captive'.  Every one. As a result whole lives can change. Mine has.

As I tell our kids, you can't control other people. You can't control all your circumstances.  The one thing you have perfect control over is your response. That determines whether you experience defeating or defining moments.  

You can read an exerpt from the Power of a Postive You chapter here. 

The Mouth Has a Mind of its Own here. 

A plethora of food for thought here. 

Wishing you an abundantly blessed weekend.  Happy thoughts, y'all! 

 "For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear) but of power and of love and of of calm and well-balanced mind and  discipline and self control." 

Joyce Meyers' notes on 1 Tim 1:7