Winter blah's

      It's here and we are in the thick of it. The middle of winter. Bland gray skies fill the midwest. Frigid cold, snow and then warmth and slush, melting, freezing cycle on and off. One psychologist figured out that January 24th is the most depressing day of the year. You and I can be sold on that. We can choose to believe that its a rotten time of year. We can choose to believe anything we are told. We could also take a fresh view which we have a biblical example of. The Apostle Peter, who the author believes is his kindred spirit, was going back to "law keeping" by eating under old testament laws. This would be the same to us as saying "I have heard an Ipod, but I like wax phonographs, so that is what I am going to do". WHAT!!! Why would you change your mind to use an antiquated product? Peter was under the tutelage of Jesus himself who despised law keeping as evidenced by his laser pointed indictments towards the Pharisees and scribes (televangelists and lawyers....lol). It was SLAVERY and ever increasing sinfulness at the hands of over 5 thousand laws. Christ fulfilled the law, thereby having the authority to set it aside to make his prophesied kingdom and new law the better way. Peter, siding with the law keepers again needed a very poignant lesson to foment correction.
        One night Peter had a dream. A sheet was let down and all kinds of animals were let down. God said "rise, kill and eat". Peter must have went into near cardiac arrest. "FORBID it Lord!!! it is unclean". God replied "Do not call unclean what I have made clean". Peter underwent a thought change process. The Greek word was "Meta Noeo" or the "changing of the mind".
          Many of you may not know about your conscious and unconscious mind. One is awake and making decisions. The other is sleeping, while soaking up everything while awake and asleep. Many things bombard us day after day. During our awake state we filter information according to our values. When we are watching TV or sleeping or not filtering that information; it all becomes a file in our brain. "You can't do that!"....."We don't have any money for that!"...."No jobs on market"....."Many people fail", it goes on and on. You can choose to believe that, or you can choose not to believe that. You must understand things that are offered for learning have been done by others before. An old movie line stands out. It says "What one man can do, ANOTHER CAN DO!". That's right. Do you want to be an ace mechanic? Then DO IT. I want to eventually be an artist, who restores old cars. That is happening. I quote Solomon; "So as a man thinketh so shall he become". Do you dwell on the gray skies and neglect work, projects and hobbies because of the winter blah's? You had better change your mind.