Cluttered thoughts… lead to a cluttered heart…
Feeling like a clanging cymbal… as the day begins… love lacking… in action and word…
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1Corinthians 13:1 ESV
(my emphasis)
Approaching life with muddled thoughts of grumbling… discontent… self-pity…
Love is patient and kind…
It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful…
1Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV
(emphasis mine)
Reminders… in my house… set in places… for just such attitudes…
Do everything without grumbling and arguing…
Philippians 2:14 HCSB
Songs memorized… to sing… my heart… back to peace…
Fighting to remember…
the Savior…
And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
Luke 1:47 NASB
His Love…
Love bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
1Corinthians 13:7 ESV
His peace…
His peace will guard your hearts and minds
as you live in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7 NLT
His strength…
For I can do everything through Christ,
who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13 NLT
Die to self…
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live,
but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh
I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and
gave Himself up for me. …”
Galatians 2:20 NASB
And live… in… Him…