Do you remember the book “The Little
Engine That Could”?
The story presented the problem
of getting Christmas toys to the children across the mountains. The Big Engines
were certain the mountain was far too high for them to pull the heavy load of toys,
up and over it, into the next valley.
However, when the Little
Engine affirmed, “I think” and “I can!”…well you know the rest.
My mother had no idea, the
seed she was planting, by reading this simple children's book to me.
As I grew up, in my father’s
church, a verse like, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he” was
misinterpreted to mean, if you think
sinful thoughts, you’ve committed the sin. Now, I realize what it really taught. What you hold as your truth becomes your reality.
“I think I can, I think I
can, I think I can…” all the way over the mountain.
In my college studies of
psychology and spirituality, I became an articulate purveyor of axioms like “we
create our own reality” and “thought creates form” and “we all get to be right”.
Even so, I cannot say these truths consistently informed my life.
Over the years, from many
different sources, bits of insight continued to provide a resonating
reiteration that thought, indeed, creates form. That which I hold as my truth,
not only determines my attitude about
my reality, it actually shifts the circumstance of my reality.
...to be continued.
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