Taking Back Your Life By Taking Back Your Mind

I try not to steal anyone else’s ideas, but when this daily devotional appeared in my inbox I said that I had to at least borrow the topic. The mind. It is a powerful thing. I had a talk with my friend who is a mental health professional, and I told her that I wish I could go to a hypnotist and erase the memories of this last fiasco. She looked at me and said that I would repeat the fiasco again anyway because my mind would not have learned the lesson. Let me see if I can explain what she meant by that. I have another friend who told me years ago that I repeat the same cycles in relationships by choosing the same type of man. I didn’t realize I had a type. (insert a sarcastic smirk) But she was right. It just took me a long time to realize I was repeating a cycle. So back to my other friend. When I told her that I wish I could erase painful memories, she said it wouldn’t be a good idea. It took the pain of the memories to be burned to the point that I walked away from what was burning me. Let’s face it. In the natural world all of us have been burned at least once on the stove or oven, but we continue to cook. Same thing goes in relationships. We probably encounter behaviors that we don’t necessarily love, but we keep coming back to the person or people like them. For the why, stay tuned for my future book! I say all of this to say that as much as we wish we could go back in time and change the worst parts of our lives, we can’t. Every incident, painful or pleasant, has made us the total package that we are. I don’t love the idea that I have been constructed by broken pieces, but that is the reality for all of us. The trick is to allow the Spirit of God to glue those pieces into place and to renew our minds so that we can walk out a better life from the lessons we have learned along the way.