These creatures are unusual things, they live in a small cage, sleep during the day and spin at night. They spin and spin and spin. They spin on a wheel, round and round they run on this wheel. It seems like such a pointless pattern.
A friend once commented on our pattern of thinking, that it can be like a hamster, round and round it spins. I am a thinker and a muller, this is me. Round and round my thoughts can go. I also have an active imagination and a long and good memory. I have to be careful about my thinking patterns especially when I am down and in a more quiet mood. I can allow myself to spin and spin on thoughts that are not productive, on circumstances that did not go my way. Like a hamster on a wheel it produces little and takes me nowhere.
During low times, times when I am anxious, I have to determine to set my eyes on the above, to focus on things that are pure and to give my concerns to God. Its a discipline, a good one, but one that takes a lot of work, one that is a work in progress for me. My beautiful wife has created Q cards for me with verses, scripture verses that help me out of my unhealthy thinking patterns.
Psalm 26:2
New International Version (NIV)
Test me, Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind;
Colossians 3:2
New International Version (NIV)
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Philippians 4:8
New International Version (NIV)
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
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