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Okay, let's all put our money where our heart is.
Money is scarce this year so think about where you want to put it to use.
(We are trying an old fashioned/ homemade Christmas, can I even remember how to knit?)

Is there a small business that you really love and wish there were more of in the world. How about that place where you are friends with the owners and you feel like family when you are there? or a place where it is the young familys' livelyhood and your money can help them too? or that place that is the only place you can get that thing you want when you need it? or even someplace that will pay tithing on the money again. Maybe I go too far but it counts for something someplaces? Weren't we driven out of Missouri for that? (that's an old Mormon joke).

While I am at it, let's all put a dollar in the Salvation Army's red bell ringer bucket. Teach your kids how fun it is to put coins in there and tell them what good it does.

As Ephraim Levi always said, "Money is like manure, it's only good when you spread it around- encouraging young things to grow".
Whoa, two movie posts in a row.

I'm Sailing On

This is Important to Me. it is what I have come to know.
Like it or not, I am in charge.
We have the ability and the responsibility to choose what we think about. It is a divine power.

You make me angry" is a false statement. No one, nothing "makes" us angry. We choose.
"We are the captains of our soul"( loosely quoted)

Choose not to be angry. Choose to forgive quickly. Choose to not be offended.
Choose Faith.

D&C 58:28 For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves

Fear of failure?-don't allow yourself to think about it.
(I see this in kids especially, they don't want to do something they are not already good at. It is a sad trap.)
Faith/Fear - Faith/Doubt - Trust/worry -- opposite sides--it is one or the other. You can't really have both at the same time. Whose side are you on?

Don't allow yourself to think about it. Dwelling on some "lie" only gives it more power more of a chance to become a physical part of who you are.

Don't be afraid of criticism from those around you. Don't see it where it isn't.
Do not let fear stop you.
Do try new things and progress.

What are you choosing to dominate your thoughts? Have you considered that as a gift from Heaven?

Your thoughts and memory process are a complicated chemical reaction in your brain. it affects us biologically, spiritually and socially. -- becoming an actual cellular, physical part of who we are.

Proverbs 23:7 As a man thinketh so is he.

Choose what you think about wisely. It becomes part of you and influences what you do and say and become, and it amplifies with age. This is one of my favorite topics. I may speak on it often.



a lighter aside- from out in left field- If you have seen the old movie "9to5" they would never have done any of those things if they hadn't "imagined" them first. (It's been remade into a Broadway musical by the way).