Blog 828 – 11.28.2017

I Think, I Can

“I think, I can” is not just a choo choo’s mantra, but mine. Remember the little train in the children’s book that had a hard time pulling the heavy load of cars up the hill but kept saying over and over, “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can” till he made it to the top and over the hill? There is great wisdom in that little story. We all possess the power of the Universe – it is the power of thought. However hard or difficult it, whatever it is, may seem if we think – we can.

Many years ago I heard someone say, “You need to take the word “can’t” out of your dictionary – “Can’t never could do anything.” But I tried and I failed. Good for you, try again. Try, try, try, but even more importantly think, think, think. It is always possible to think a better thought. In the wonderful recently released movie Wonder, a little boy with a face deformity starts school for the first time in fifth grade. His mother played by Julia Roberts has home schooled him up to that point. She decides that it is time that he put his face out in the real world. As he walks in to the school building she prays out loud, “Oh, God, make them be nice to him.” But she had armed him with more than a prayer. As he meets the stares and the side steps of the children he says to the movie watchers, “My mom always told me when you don’t like where you are think of where you would like to be.” And we get to see his thoughts and he is all suited up in complete astronaut space suit and being high-fived by everyone as he walks into the school and down the hall. Before the movie is over that thought becomes Auggie Pullman’s reality. Or as one of my favorite writers, Mike Dooley says time and time again, “Thoughts become things. Choose the good one.” Today’s picture is a great quote about worrying but it is also true of all negative thoughts that they are like walking around with an open umbrella waiting for it to rain. And whether or not that is bad luck in doors it is bad business everywhere unless it is really raining.

I am reminded of the woman, it could be a man also, who went to the doctor for thirty years sure she had developed cancer. Each year the doctor assured her that she had not. Finally after thirty years he examined her and sadly agreed with her diagnosis. She said, “See, I told you.” I have a very dear friend, well she has not spoken to me in over a year except to send me a brief email to take her off of my Daily Mockingbird Song email list, who believes that I caused her to have an appendicitis attack as a teenager because I sat with another girl at a play we both went to separately. I laughed for years at the idea that anyone could cause someone to have an appendicitis attack. I have not laughed at that idea for sometime. I have come to believe that everything including illness is first a thought then becomes a reality. I refuse to give names to my occasional aches and pains I will not consciously or even inadvertently, if I can help it, give them power to manifest disease in my life. And if they do I will remind them and all that I am – guided, guarded, and protected – that I am Holy, I am Whole, – that I am happy, healthy, and wealthy, that I am fine and dandy, and more so every day and in every way.

You may think this all too simplistic but sometimes the real answers are not that complicated nor the causes of the trouble in our lives. When it comes to thoughts disregard and discard the clinkers and stinkers, keep only the good stuff. I think, I can is a concept we can all get our heads and hearts around. Remember that “can do” spirit of the little train who thought he could and did.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White