looking through a tinted lens

As I get older I realise how often that how I feel impacts my vision and my hearing.......how I feel affects how I see things, and how I hear things. It affects how I experience things.

If my filters are clogged with debris such as hurt, anger, frustration, my out look and response to things is skewed. For example I may have a clogged filter because of an instance at work, take it home and respond irrationally to my kids or my wife. However if my filters are are clean, my responses are far more pleasant.

Lately I have been trying to let life come to me more, not to worry about the what if's and to realise that in all things God has a plan. It's a process to train oneself to think differently and sometimes can feel like one step forward and 2 back. I find that so much of life is a discipline, like working out in a gym to gain strength or stamina, it takes discipline to train my mind and keep it focused.
Philipians 4:8 says, 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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  Looking thru a lens of hurt, frustration or anger can impact so much of your life, it certainly has mine as I realise how unhealthy some of my worrisome thought patterns have been.

Isaiah 64:8

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Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter;
we are all the work of your hand

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