Thoughts on Thoughts

My old job kept my brain fully occupied. It wasn't unusual to be simultaneously talking to someone, remembering something that applied to the situation, reading something on my computer, clicking my way through screens...

My new job gives me more time to think. When I'm holding a sleeping Little Guy, or feeding him, or taking him on a walk, or folding his laundry, my brain can also do something else.

So I'm praying the Lord would guide my thoughts. Here are some scriptures I've been contemplating:

Do not be children in your thinking; be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.  - 1 Corinthians 14:20

Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. - Philippians 4:8

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God - what is good and acceptable and perfect. - Romans 12:2

We live as human beings, but we do not wage war according to human standards; for the weapons of our warfare are not merely human, but they have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ. - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

I think the next step is to memorize these and speak them over my son. May his thinking be tuned to God's truth from an early age!