Comments on: Think Differently by Bob Hamp (guest post)

By: Facing Your Pain | Spiritual Wellness

Facing Your Pain | Spiritual Wellness — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:58:32 +0000

[...] more on how to find freedom from your pain, see my guest post Think Differently by my mentor Bob [...]

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:31:43 +0000

AND THE WINNER IS… Katherine.

Thank you all for your fun and engaging participation!

Blessings, Angie

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:31:00 +0000

AND THE WINNER IS… Katherine.

Katherine, please send your shipping information to my email, angieschullerwyatt@gmail.com

Thank you all for your fun and engaging participation!

Blessings, Angie

By: Bob Hamp

Bob Hamp — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:30:42 +0000

Dead on Katherine…define the problem correctly before applying solutions…this will save you a number of ruined lugnuts, and a lot of pain.

By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:30:23 +0000

To discuss, I take the titel of this book Angie and tell you my own thoughts. It means for me think positive even when something goes wrong. Live different means to me not to get in rage so quickly, beeing patient not forgetting that others have values as well and treat them with compassion and love. Love is the greatest thing on earth. Blessings, Swiss Rose

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:30:05 +0000

Sometimes the answer to fixing a problem is to first determine what the REAL problem is. I recently lost my house due to the mortgage meltdown and the downsizing or my employer that resulted in the outsourcing of my job. Finding myself unemployed, unable to make my house payment, I tried everything I could to hang onto my home, until one day I had no choice – the house was gone and I had to move. I had prayed to keep my home rather than praying for God’s guidance. It never occurred to me that He might want me to move out of a house I was not all that attached to, not particularly happy living in. Once I put myself into His hands and totally let go, I found the perfect place to live, a home where I am much closer to my adult children and grandchild, and where I am very happy and much more at ease than I ever was in the home I lost. That taught me not to pray for a solution to the problem but first for clarification of the problem. Once one has this clear understanding of what the REAL problem is, the right tools can be applied, the right prayer requests can be made. The best thing we can do in any situation is to recognize that God is the One who sees the big picture, and it’s God, through us or through someone who helps us, Who is actually the One in control. Seek Him first in everything and you will understand what the problem is and what tools are needed for the solution. To lean on our own understanding is to invite greater problems.

By: crisadill

crisadill — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:29:45 +0000

All through our lives we go through different stages of how to fix our problems. My parents believed in the Lord. So I went to church and Sunday school and so on. But I found my teenage years were when I went more independant and knew it all.
so my way was not always the right way or I had not solved the problem completly. Soon I learned about patience and to have confidence to give my problems to the Lord. Patience played a big part in learning to have faith and trust. As we know the Lord does not always answer right away or how we think we would like it to be answered. When he answers different then what we think he should. Down the road trust comes along and shows why he did it a different way. So we need the faith to wait and learn . And soon we see it was better his way and in the meantime you have proberly showed some friends . How the Lord works And why we love him so much. And he makes our hearts so much lighter when the heart is full of Love for our Lord.
God Bless Everyone.
Cysradill

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:29:13 +0000

I have experienced this by using the world’s answer for a problem only to find the problem grew much bigger and became overwhelming. Then I went to God to ask for His way. I am learning to ask God first and find it makes life and problems seem so simple.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:28:45 +0000

Thanks for posting an excerpt from your new book, ‘Think Differently Live Differently’.

The title quite rightly recognizes that most of us (I) certainly would like to change some of our (my) too quick reactions and ironically, even that I would want to do so instantly; when a problem arises, we (I) want to “fix whatever right away”!

To some extent those qualities can, at some times be good; self-confidence as with the baby reaching for a pacifier and also like a young Bob Hemp willing to drop everything to first help out his Aunt. It is human nature, as the story portrays, to get things done immediately and our busy world teaches instant solutions! (Want a movie now! Run to the video shop or just down-load the movie on-line.
Have a problem, I can fix it)….but

it can lead to disaster if we have not thought through all the aspects to the problem, as in the case of the car tire to be changed and not having the correct tools!

In my life I have had my share of ups and downs like most people but at some point I learned that not reacting too quickly in most problems will change the initial “adrenalin rush” to a solution and those better thought-out solutions have mostly been the right course to have taken…..but not always taken alone, I learned!

Later in life I added talking to God throughout the day; in seeing wonderful blue skies or thanking Him for the rain to make the flowers grow and that led to…

when someone or I had a problem, I immediately thought to quietly pray or talk to God that He might be part of helping solve the problem through Faith that He would guide us (me) if I trusted Him.

If we (I) stay connected to Him, it becomes the first place to go in whatever I need or want to do, before I do anything. It is calming and then I see the right direction to follow in replacing a problem with a Blessing.

In the end, a Blessing will make everyone happier, if not eliminating the initial problem.

So your stories led me to think of patience and confidence, Faith and Love! And above all Trust in HIM who is always with us!

Thanks again for getting me thinking with your book excerpt and thanks for sharing with us here on Angie’s Blog.

He is Blessing all
Jan-Michael

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:27:56 +0000

Sometimes, the best solutions are the simple ones.
“A power tool”–Might ‘get it errrr done’…Lol