A Journey from Surviving to Thriving

I woke up this morning with a rather troubling question on my mind which I believe God put there.  It went something like, “Don, is your focus these days primarily on allowing My thoughts to feed your soul … or is it on allowing TV talk show hosts and YouTube videos to fill your brain with lots of disturbing current events?”   Frankly now that I think about it, the first part of that question  generally energizes me, gives me hope and purpose, fills me with awe and wonder, and helps me thrive.  However, the second part usually tends to anger me, cause anxiety and confusion, weakens me, and leaves me rather lost and hopeless. After allowing these words written on this page to stare back at me for a while, I found myself saying to myself — why in the world would I not clearly focus continually on allowing God’s thoughts and words to feed my soul and less on news anchors and the disastrous spin they tend to put on the news to fill my brain?  Dear Reader, I am being very open and honest

In a previous post (Post #8)  I shared “My Story” of how years ago I admitted to a friend on the Air Force Base that my “time in the Word” was not good, and thus accepted his invitation to meet with him for a series of Monday mornings before work to read the Bible together and pray. That year was life changing for me!  I had been a “Christian” for years before this, but was not what I’d call today a “follower of Jesus”.  But with my friend’s mentoring and thoughtful care, I became reasonably confident in my relationship with the Lord. Then, after about a year or so of meeting like this, he said, “Don, let’s pray that God leads you to someone in whom you could invest and share what I’ve shared with you” .  This was a new thought to me, and a rather frightening one at that, yet with my new confidence in the Lord I was able to pray about this possibility. THE REST OF THE STORY Generally when we hear about “investing”, our minds go to the financial world.  This is  a different kind of in