Invading Thoughts

Invading Thoughts     

               Okay, so this is time to ‘fess up:  How many times a day do you think about food?  After you’ve finished breakfast, do you think about what you’re going to have for lunch?  And after you’ve finished lunch, do you think about what you’re going to have for dinner?

            These are my answers:  I think about food, what seems to me, all the time.  It’s embarrassing.  Of course, no one else knows what’s going on inside my head, but it’s embarrassing to me to think about my next meal after I’ve just finished one meal.

            It’s embarrassing to be having a conversation with someone and be thinking at the same time, “I’m going to stop at the DQ on my way home.”

            Often I use this excuse (notice the use of the word “excuse” not “reason”), “Well, of course, I’m going to think about food.  I live in a single person household.  I’m the one responsible for meal planning, grocery shopping and food prep.  I HAVE to think about food.”

            Hm, yeah, well that might explain one-tenth of my thinking about food, but let’s face it:  it doesn’t explain my thinking about the DQ in the middle of a conversation.

            So what do I do about the voice that haunts my thoughts with food?  I think I found the answer taped to my refrigerator (must have needed these words at some other time in my life):

Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right.  Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable.  Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise (Phil. 4:8, Life Application Study Bible).

            I’m going to try to do this.  God’s way is always the best way.

                                                                                                                                    Sharon Witty

P.S.  Gloria and I pray you, our readers, a Blessed Easter.