When your thoughts flow freely, they tend to move toward problems. Your focus gets snagged on a given problem, circling round and round it in attempts to gain mastery. Your energy is drained away from other matters through this negative focus. Worst of all, you lose sight of Me.
A renewed mind is Presence-focused. Train your mind to seek Me in every moment, every situation. Sometimes you can find Me in your surroundings: a lilting birdsong, a loved one’s smile, golden sunlight. At other times, you must draw inward to find Me. I am always present in your spirit. Seek My Face, speak to Me, and I will light up your mind.
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Michael & Alison Smitherman
The Singing NetSurfers
I will sing to my Lord as long as I live, I will sing
praise to my God while I have my being.
What a precious gift is a moment in physical time. How much would one give for just a few more when facing death or when embracing a loved on who is departing? Treasure each moment as the miracle of beauty, sensation and awareness that it is. In physical reality those moments are the things of which we have an absolutely finite number. Even one is more precious than wealth, and then it is gone.
The past is a memory and the future, but a dream. It is in the present that we live, decide and shape this precious moment; and all the future moments for eternity. Be fully in each moment, enjoying the awesome physical wonders around us. But more importantly, yea critically essential, be always focused on the spiritual miracles that are God with us in that moment.
When we focus our attention on the present with God, he will enlighten our physical world without and our spiritual world within. And when we share one of those moments in prayer for, or helping another, we have given our most valuable earthly gift, our finite moments in physical time. When we get it right, t hen Eden will be the garden we inhabit.
Renewing focus,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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