Summer is in full swing. As I drove around Nevada I saw children on their bikes heading to the pool and last week we could hear the loudspeaker from the Fairgrounds during the 4-H fair. As a family we enjoyed our first taste of sweet corn. We have had heat and rain all part of the season many enjoy.
I attended a workshop that was not Christian based but my Christian beliefs and principals could be applied. The workshop was focusing on changing the way we think and becoming positive and optimistic in our way of thinking. The premise is if you change your way of thinking you can have better health because many of our health issues come from negative thinking.
To change your way of thinking you repeat out loud and then to yourself a positive statement and meditate of that statement for several minutes. This is not unlike prayer because as I meditated on a statement I also focused on God and asked God to redirect my thinking. The workshop leader may have wanted us to change our way of thinking ourselves, but I felt I could only change by allowing God to lead.
A comment was made later in the workshop that prayer is energy and I had to agree. Christ gives us the energy that we need. Paul writes in Colossians 1:28 & 29, “We proclaim him (Christ), admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ which so powerfully works in me.” When we pray we send God’s energy out to those we are praying for because we have Christ’s energy within ourselves.
May your summer continue to be enjoyable and may you also enjoy the energy of Christ that dwells within each of you.
Smiling in Christ,
Pastor Karen
