Your feelings are bad reporters. They exaggerate, catastrophize, and never check their sources.
Stories sell. Marketers know that. A well-told story gets people to buy in—whether it’s a product, an idea, or an entire worldview. The more it’s repeated, the truer it feels. The more it sells.
Now, think about the stories running through your mind. Are they selling you hope or despair? Strength or helplessness? Are they stories about possibility, or the same tired tragedy where everything goes wrong, and you never recover?
The most dangerous stories always end the same way: It will always be this way.
That’s your brain’s way of closing the case. No need to change. No need to try. Just sit back and let the worst version of your life play on repeat—same plot, same characters, same heartbreak.
Failure isn’t just a setback—it’s proof that you should never try again. Anxiety isn’t just a feeling—it’s evidence that risk isn’t worth taking. Rejection isn’t just a moment—it’s confirmation that you were never enough to begin with. Feeling exposed means shutting down, lashing out, or disappearing altogether. And guilt? That’s the easiest fix of all. Just rewrite the past until it wasn’t your fault.
Each of these stories starts with a feeling. But instead of letting it pass, you let it define you. You replay, reinforce, and mistake it for the truth until it cements into identity.
Your thoughts aren’t just thoughts. They are the script. And if you don’t write it, you’ll spend your whole life acting out a role you never chose.
No life—just survival. No freedom—just a loop.
And for what? The comfort of certainty? The familiarity of suffering? The illusion of control?
Try this instead: If your mind is going to run stories, start telling ones that serve rather than destroy you. Train your thoughts to expect good. Strengthen your faith in something greater than fear, bigger than your ego, more potent than your pride.
Love—that’s all this life is about. What does this situation look like from the perspective of love? What could love turn this problem into? How can you apply compassion and forgiveness? These are the stories worth telling.
God can only give you what your mind is willing to receive, so what are you preparing for? If you expect struggle, you’ll find it. If you dwell on past hurt, you’ll recreate it. But if you focus on love, lightness, and possibility, your life will start to shape itself around those things.
Your thoughts are the builders. Build with fear, and you get a prison. Build with faith, and you expand in ways you never expected.
Stop rehearsing the worst-case scenario. Turn the tragic script into one of triumphant love.
Because God is always working for your highest good—but you have to stop falling for the stories that say otherwise.
Quotes: All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are molding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life’s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought. Emmet Fox
Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2
Song Accompaniment: Let My Love Open The Door, Peter Townsend
Artwork: The Art of Seth
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