Creative Thinking

One of my teachers says, “The greatest power available to us as individuals is the power of our own minds, the power of our own thoughts.  In the creation of a personal life worth living, the action – the essential action – must be mental.  Remember, all thought is creative, even goofy thought.” 

It is easy to forget that life goes on based on what we are thinking.  When things don’t go right, in my estimation, I conveniently forget that I did the “goofy” thought or no thought at all. 

J. Kennedy Shultz goes on to say, “But if we can bring ourselves to the point where we think well enough of ourselves, believe enough I ourselves, and in life, and in God, so that we can stand face to face with the universe and know that all the good we seek is at hand, we will have the consciousness that easily fulfills our desires.  If we can announce that we are open, receptive, and entirely worthy of our good, if we can proclaim with growing faith that we expect our good, our good will come forth.  Because that is the consciousness that heals, blesses, and prospers all life.”

This thinking is the way God thinks.  This is the way God creates, demonstrates and manifests life.  And since you and I are a part of God, it stands to reason that we can elevate our thinking to that level and create our lives exactly as we were meant to be.  We need to know what it is that we want in life, because if we don’t, life creates for us the mundane, ordinary, and sometimes, a very mediocre life.  Who wants just that? 

Decide what you want, write it down, and tuck it away somewhere and watch how what it is that you want just shows up on the path of your life.  As a friend of mine told me this morning, “It is like what I want just comes flying through the air at me.  That didn’t happen until I figured out what my goals were.”  Yes, that’s how it happens.