Dear Reader:

Have you ever ” thought” about how many different types of thoughts cross your mind every single day?

Well recently the Cleveland Clinic published these ” brain facts” after a long study to discover the number of thoughts crossing our brains daily.

The average person has 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day- 80% negative and 95% of these thoughts were exactly the same repetitive thoughts as the day before.

We have all probably heard some of the quotes on joy that remind us not to let anyone steal our joy but considering the number of thoughts that cross our minds in a single day… we allow more thoughts to steal our time ( while living on Earth) than we do other people stealing it.

Is it just me … but it appears that a lot of blame we put on others for stealing our joy or causing us discomfort and pain is self-inflicted-Pogo was right… we are our own worst enemies… we do quite a job on self-put-downs but then we turn around and put down others for putting us down.

What is it in human nature that makes us ruminate over negativity and push good memories and positive thoughts into the dusty corner of our minds.

1) We remember traumatic experiences over positive ones

2) We recall insults more than praise

3) React more strongly to negative events and thoughts than to positive events and thoughts

After reading findings like this… we can’t help but wonder if God needs to do a full-blown ” do-over” on us humans. Yet we know God made us in His image so we have a challenge from the day we arrive until the day we leave… to think of others and how we can help them… letting those positive thoughts start stockpiling… pushing the negative thoughts into the dusty corner of our ” attic.”

In other words… we need to learn what ” Bert” learned in the book The Best Worst Day Ever.

So until tomorrow… if we are planning something for someone beside ourselves-someone we really want to help… our thoughts at night and during the day are positive! And that is the lesson God is trying to teach us… we are positive and happy when we put others in front of us and leave our negative self-absorption behind.

Today is my favorite day-Winnie the Pooh

*** Many of you let me know the post didn’t pop up yesterday … and I thought ” No Way!” I wrote and set the Saturday post as usual to appear at 6 am but nada when I checked it.

Apparently something was off at WordPress-it showed the time for publishing as 9:27 pm for Saturday September 9. ” No way” … who would set such a weird time. But when I went in to hit Publish Now… it wouldn’t let me do that either.

I ended up at Lassie’s and we thought several times it was ready… it even told us it had published the post but it had not… I am probably boring you to death but just want you to know so if something weird happens again tomorrow… you will know we will know that WordPress gremlins are playing havoc … with me at least.

And how about Dem Tigers? All I could think of was Sleeping Beauty being awakened by a 💋… KISS and suddenly everything was normal and beautiful again … the game that was half out… and boy oh boy… half IN for the best ending EVER! Happily Ever After!