There was freedom for my mind and it started by getting out of my head.
My grandfather’s funeral was last month, and it seemed we were all in a bit of a stupor. The night before the service, my mom started sending me pictures of what she was going to wear. At first, I thought she would come up with something, and let the first picture pass, but when she kept sending them, things were spiraling. There needed to be an intervention.
I grabbed everything in my closet and started driving. Now, she usually puts great things together, but we were thick in the middle of a week of sad, and pressure, and things were starting to spin out of control, beginning in my mother’s closet. By spiraling, I mean things were unclear…it made decisions she could usually make foggy, and she couldn’t see clearly. It was easy to feed the spiral because there was a lot of stuff in her closet, things that should never see the light of day…for sure…ever again.
First, we needed to stop the spiral. Then we need to clean the closet.
It reminded me of Jennie Allen’s new book, Get Out Of Your Head. This book started me on a journey to clean out the closet…which was my head. Thoughts that I was spinning in that should no longer see the light of day but were so easy to take off the shelf and put on, and I was wearing them.
There was freedom for my mind, and it started by getting out of my head.
Get Out Of Your Head isn’t a book to help you start thinking more positive thoughts. It’s a path to freedom, a way of living, an opportunity, and a method to choose to take your thoughts captive, resist, and throw the bad out.
My mom is not a bad dresser, but that night when things were spinning, the bad clothes were too close at hand. She needed to throw them out. It was the same with my mind. The untrue thoughts were too close, and I was grabbing them, putting them on and living in them.
I didn’t know that some of the thoughts I was wearing were so bad. I didn’t know there was freedom from my patterns of thinking and that it was so easy to come by. But first, I had to choose to throw the old stuff out.
There was renewing of my mind, and it started by cleaning out the closet.
Sometimes we need to get our thoughts out in the open so that we can throw out the bad. Jennie’s book gives you a path to ask God about your thoughts and then to choose whether you are going to believe Him or not.
This is going to take an investment. It’s not going to come instantly, but it’s worth cleaning the closet of your mind, stopping the spinning of negative, even untrue, thoughts because there is freedom waiting for you as you renew your mind, freedom you may not even know is possible. I didn’t realize I was a slave to my thoughts because I was in the middle of the tornado and couldn’t see my way out.
I believe there is freedom for your mind and as you take your thoughts captive that your best days are ahead.
HLLF,
