Sunday Story…The Thief

In your mind, unlike the thief on the street, is stealing your promise, not your purse.

Contemplate on that for just a moment. How many of us are allowing a burglar into the recesses of our brains to rummage around and steal whatever they choose? Would you let a stranger off the street into your home to do that? Or even someone you knew? 

You let the thief in your mind in the front door. Maybe you even welcomed them in thinking they were benign or even helpful. But then they turned on you and in the most insidious ways began to erode your self-confidence, your hopes, and dreams, and most of all your sense of wellbeing. That thief is sitting there in the chair you gave them and sucking up all your promise.

Why would you let that happen? You wouldn’t let a thief on the street grab your wallet or purse and run off with it, would you? So don’t let the thief in your mind make off with your promise…the promise of who you can be, the promise of the people you can serve, the promise of the world your can change, the promise of the love you can share.

The thief in your mind is a sneaky devil. We don’t even know he is there, or how he got there. But we need to incarcerate him someplace where he can no longer take what doesn’t belong to him. Kick him to the curb!

John Mariotti

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