Even the YM/YW theme for 2007 gives you a marvelous promise, The Secret promises you success in all areas of your life. Norman Vincent Peale gives you a hundred great ones in his book, The Power of Positive Thinking. There are so many great reasons to become a more positive thinker. While these positive affirmations sound really cheesy, they really do work. She read that every day, and soon she was that mother, because she had read it so much that it changed her thinking until she was that person. She was determined not to pass that on to her children, and even though she was a little rough around the edges, she wrote a description of the mother she wanted to be. In The Book of Nurturing by Linda and Richard Eyre, they gave a great example of a woman who had had a less-than-wonderful upbringing. It's based on Proverbs 23:7, which says, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” This little book shows how what you think makes what you are. And if you haven't yet, I'll make it easy. It's been recommended and quoted by many of the prophets and apostles, and I figured it was about time to read it. I recently read As a Man Thinketh by James Allen. When we are so blessed with the gospel, why do we complain? Why do we whine, snap, moan, criticize, argue, embarrass, rebuke, gossip, and so on? Isn't it very clear that we are to be above that? Yet why do we keep doing it? And worse, why are our kids doing it too? (That's worse, because it means we're giving them that example!) (Ensign, May 2007, “ The Tongue of Angels“ ) We should honor the Savior's declaration to “be of good cheer.” (Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!) If only we could all try to be positive all the time, even in times of hardship! Her husband, worried as he was, replied, “I'm trying to be, honey!” She was bleeding profusely, but she still had the presence of mind to tell her husband her blood type. Years ago, my sister-i- law had a medical emergency.
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