Moving Mountains: Write 28 Days 02.20.2022

Dearest readers and writers, struggling today to get my Write 28 Days 02.20.2022 post up.  This is the 20th day of the #write28days challenge. It is nigh on bedtime and I got nothing.  And it’s not that I don’t have plenty I can write about.  I just don’t have the energy to write up something today.  So, what to do?

Write 28 Days 02.20.2022

I decided to consult the February journaling prompts that Maria provides at the Krafty Planner.  In particular, the prompt for 02.17, which asked:

How does focusing on positivity affect your mood?

Positivity is something I surely struggle with.  Especially in regard to my own life.  So, that was a tough question for me to contemplate. Coincidentally, we finally returned to church today for the first time since the beginning of January.  The message must have been designed just for me.  Shannon Neiman, the associate pastor, reminded us that:

What comes out of your mouth should be what you believe.  What is the language of your life?

Those ideas seem analogous (how ’bout that big word) or interdependent to me.  If you have faith that everything is going to be okay, You speak that over your life, your outlook is bound to be positive and your mood upbeat.  My trouble is it seems that every day there is a new problem or new set of problems.  So, when I awake each morning, I often ask ‘what is today going to bring?’  Not in anticipation that the day will be glorious and blessing-filled.  But fully expecting more struggles compounding the struggles from the day before.

Changing My Mindset

Whenever I start to spiral downward with negativity, Paul will often intervene by saying “Everything is going to be okay.”  Rarely do I find that reassuring because it seems to me that there is going to be something else, then something else.  Everything is going to be okay…maybe.  Sooner or later.  But why does everything have to be so hard and such a fight first.

Paul is right, everything does wind up being okay, one way or another.  When he said it today, after church, I realized in doing so, he is doing what Pastor Neiman suggests we all should do.  We should believe and speak over our lives exactly what we want for our lives.  PC is wanting everything to be okay and is speaking that over the situations in our lives.

I need to change my mindset.  Instead of forecasting more trouble over my life, I need to anticipate good.

Words for the Wise

In order to help change my mindset, I need to remember that no weapon fashioned against me will succeed, Isaiah 54:17.  I must speak to the mountains in my life in order to overcome those tribulations, Mark 11:23.  And finally, that whatever I believe over my life, and therefore speak over my life, I will have, 2 Corinthians 4:13.