Nine suggestions for 2013

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Last year I published a list of seven things to do to improve your life in 2012. This year I'm adding numbers eight and nine.

1) Pick out a specific place to pray for a specific person and pray for them every time you're there. For example, pray for someone while you're in the shower; pray for someone different at a stop light, at your kitchen sink, in your car, etc..

2) Remember if you can't change the situation you have to change your attitude. If you're tied to a rock, learn to love the rock. Let the situation change you.

3) Realize acceptance does not always mean approval. There's just some things that have to be accepted in life, whether agreed with or not.

4) If you find yourself unable to get along with people, make a list of those people and then find the common denominator; most likely it's you.

5) Live in the present moment. One-hundred percent of every minute of every day is lived in the present moment. The past is only made up of memories that are simple harmless thoughts running through your mind. The only way they can harm you is if you give them significance.

6) Don't have a relationship with your mind. If you find yourself thinking about the past, or ahead to the future ( all over the map, as my doctor calls it) stop and listen to your thoughts. Retrieve your mind. Don't have forward thinking about something that may never happen.

7) Don't just give mental consent that God is in control; let Him be CEO of your universe. Just see how long you can hold your breath and see if He's not.

8) Admit that God's timing is perfect. Patience means waiting for God's perfect will. Sometimes God waits because our longing for Him is in danger of being replaced by our desire for something else.

9) Practice the presence of God. What Ignace Paderewski, the great pianist, said about practicing the piano is true about walking with God: "If I do not practice one day, I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it. If I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it." Let the whole world know every day you're walking with God.

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