Weight.  Do you ever feel like you’re carrying too much weight? Not on your body but in your head?  Yes, extra weight on the body can weigh heavy on your mind too. But anyone can feel like they’re carrying a mental load that’s simply more than they want to bear.  The mental basket may be filled to the brim with finances, past mistakes, health issues, exercises not done, kid problems, and fluctuating despair about the world, just to name a few items.  Our thoughts weigh a lot more when we put them all together than when we look at each of them individually.  Crammed in that basket, tumbling all over each other, the load can do us all sorts of harm, not to mention vaporize our happiness.

The good news is that mental weight is the easiest to lose! Sometimes a nice long walk and a simple prayer can do it. “God I give you this basket full of my muddled thoughts and enhanced worries; I give up; I am done.  It is yours.”

Then what do you think Spirit does with your gift?  It is instantly destroyed.  Why?  Because God is Good.  Spirit wants to create good in your life, but it cannot create anything good with the chaotic mass of thoughts and worries you have just offered up.  To create something from nothing, Spirit requires clean, positive I AM thoughts and words.  That’s why we follow up our surrender prayer with those types of mental statements.  After we surrender our basket of fearful thoughts, we are free to focus our incredible minds on clear, simple Truth thoughts through which we co-create our lives with God.