Our Minds II

1. Where is your mind?
2. How do things get inside your mind?
3. What does a seed do when you put it in the ground and water it?
4. Are the words you hear and the things you see also seeds?
5. When you hear an insult and spend all day thinking about it, how are you likely to react to the person who insulted you the next time you meet them?
6. When you decide to say or do something even more terrible to them, did the insult grow the more you thought about it?
7. When you hear a kind word and spend all day thinking about it, how are you likely to respond to the person who spoke the kind word to you when you meet them again?
8. When you decide to show them even greater kindness, did the act of kindness grow the more you thought about it?
9. If the words you hear and the things you see are seeds, where do you sow them?
10. Is your mind like soil?
11. What is the reason for your answer?
12. Mention some TV shows and the seeds you sow in your mind by watching them.
13. Mention some radio programs and the seeds you sow in your mind by listening to them.
14. What good seeds can you sow in your mind by listening to your parents?
15. Do you sow seeds of obedience, respect, and good advice by listening to your parents?
16. What good seeds can you sow in your mind by watching and listening to your teachers?
17. When you sow a seed in your mind, can somebody take it from you?
18. If the seeds you sow in your mind cannot be taken from you then what kind of seeds should you sow in your mind, good or bad?
19. When you sow a seed in your mind, how do you make it grow?
20. When you do not think about it will it grow?
21. Do you want good or bad seeds to grow in your mind?
22. Should you spend time thinking about the good seeds you have sowed in your mind, or the bad seeds?
23. What does the word of God in your mind, grow into, the more you think about it?
24. In what ways have the buildings around us become better, the more we thought about them after we had learned how to build houses?
25. In what ways have computers become better, the more we thought about them after we had learned how to build computers?
26. Name something around you and describe how it became better, or grew, the more we thought about it.
27. What happens to a person who makes God the center of their thoughts?
28. How do you make God the center of your thoughts?
29. When someone tells you something that offends you, should you make what they have said the center of your thoughts and stop making God the center of your thoughts?
30. What should you do instead?
31. Take a look around you.
32. Did everything that you see start from the mind?
33. What is the reason for your answer?
34. Does stealing start from the mind?
35. When you catch someone stealing, was it that day the person stole the item?
36. What is the reason for your answer?
37. Does showing kindness start from the mind?
38. When a person shows an act of kindness, was it that day that the person showed the act of kindness?
39. What is the reason for your answer?
40. How did the world, and all creation start from the mind?
41. Would you produce good and beautiful things if your mind is bad?
42. Name some things around you, and describe how they started from the mind.
43. Is your mind a place?
44. What seeds do you have to sow in your mind for it to become like a beautiful city?
45. Do you want your mind to become like a beautiful city?
46. What seeds do you have to sow in your mind for it to become like a refuse dump?
47. Do you want your mind to become like a refuse dump?
48. What seeds do you have to sow in your mind for it to become like a desert?
49. Do you want your mind to become like a hot, dry, desert?
50. Is the mind a powerful tool?
51. Should we protect our minds from bad seeds, at all costs?
52. What are some things that we can do to protect our minds from bad seeds?
53. Close your eyes for a minute and think about God's greatness and how he can do so many wonderful things, such as making the sun never show up late and keeping the moon always on course.
54. Pray, telling God you will make him the center of your thoughts. He should help you to do so.