#Thoughts September 9

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For September I am participating in the 30-Day Literary Lesson Coach4aday Challenge. Today my focus is on THOUGHTS.

Next to my desk I have a small box of collectibles. Inside that cardboard square sits a small pamphlet called “Thought Conditioners” written by Norman Vincent Peale. He also authored a best seller called the “Power of Positive Thinking“

Literary Lessons from Norman Vincent Peale

I thought back to my childhood in Northern NJ and my dad listening to a New York City radio station WNBC 660 AM radio. On Saturday evenings the station aired Norman Vincent Peale doing his weekly show called the “Art of Living”. Rev. Peale was the pastor at Marble Collegiate Church in New York City. I was raised Catholic and the presentations I heard from Peale where nothing like the sermons I had heard in church. This man was talking about motivation and the power of positive thinking.

I will leave you with Thought Conditioner #22 from the pamphlet next to my desk.

“Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12.2

We often manufacture our own unhappiness by the negative way we think about things and events. Peale suggested twice a day pulling the plug on your brain and drain away all negative thoughts. That lets us have THOUGHTS of GOD doing positive things in our lives.