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Plant seeds of wisdom today Take the next 40 or so breaths slowly and reflect deeply on your life. I hope these words help you grow in you the most valuable treasure in life: wisdom. Wisdom grows imperceptibly but flourishes like a mighty oak, standing the test of time. ​ ​ Read in your browser. ​

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Deep transformation is completely possible and will be unsurprising if you courageously apply truth as you receive God’s love for you.

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How you live is based on how you think. Therefore, transformation isn’t fundamentally about your actions. Why? Your actions are based on what you think. We do what we believe. We can say we believe one thing, but over time our thinking will be revealed by what we actually do.

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Thinking → Doing → Results

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This is part of why in therapy we spend a lot of time talking about what you think. If you don’t get enough upstream, your distorted thinking will continue to impact your actions and you’ll keep getting the same results.

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Yet it is also true that the more you do what is true, good, and beautiful, the more your thinking changes. This gives you more consistent actions, improving your results. So you must change your thinking to change your actions and you must change your actions to change your thinking.

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But this is far too simple. Your feelings also have a profound influence on your thinking. Here is a general principle about life: the less you have identified and expressed certain significant painful feelings, the more you will be controlled by them. Not only that, but you likely won’t even be aware of it, let alone that another way is possible for you. Your thinking will strengthen and defend your wounded way of being, and you will dig yourself deeper into the pit.

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While this simple description doesn’t do justice to the healing process, it is a way of touching upon what happens in therapy. You will talk about and change what you think, you will talk about and change how you feel, and you will talk about and change how you act. As you make changes in your thinking, your feelings, and your actions you will see progress more holistically.

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Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal​
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Questions

When is the last time you learned something new about yourself?

What is one thing you've changed your mind about that has turned out to help you?

What feelings do you need to feel today?

What small new action can you practice consistently this week?

(Use these questions as a journal prompt and to guide your prayers this week)
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Endnote

Commit to being a person who continues to grow in their thinking, their ability to identify, feel and deal with their feelings, and a person who takes courageous action. All you need to do is to decide to take the next step of growth today.
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Live wisely,

Josh

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