Ok, I have talk about Oprah. Please don't get me wrong, Oprah does lots of good things for people. I just don't believe that GOOD necessarily makes you RIGHT. Oprah Winfrey is like the new EF Hutton. Everything on her show becomes a household name. Bottom line, she has followers...a lot of them. It makes me so sad and angry to watch her take the power she has to lead people into lies.
Today she had these women on who were discussing the
"Law of Attraction" . This is just one more item on the list of lies in New Age. Basically it states you can think whatever you want into existence. She has the people talk about how they were drug addicts and wanted to quit so they just thought about it everyday and spoke the words out loud and then *presto* one day they quit. There was even a woman on there who said she lived in the snow and she really wanted to live where it was warm and then all of the sudden one day she moved to LA and it was all because she put a picture of a sunny place on her "vision board".
What happened to "choices"? Is it too much to believe that the reason you got the job you wanted was because you went to school for it and you interviewed for it and you were qualified for it?? It seems to me that these people are so blinded to the truth. They put their trust in themselves and the power they have to change the situation they are in by merely thinking it. If that was true then I would be skinny, or a cheeseburger. Those two things I think about ALL the time! However, according to Oprah, the key is not to want anything TOO much or then it won't work. You first have to let go of what it is you desire then let it come back to you...What?? Don't get me wrong, I'm all about thinking positively but there is an extreme to everything. What is even more sad is that these people are teaching their children that
without exception, every human being has the ability to transform any weakness or suffering into strength, power, perfect peace, health, and abundance. I'm all for looking for the good in things and situations but "good" to me is seeing Christ personified through struggles. Isn't that his point anyway. To him be the glory, not to people.
One lady said after reading the book "A New Earth" ( another new age book Oprah is promoting and teaching an online class about!) she learned her kids would be happier if they could just see her as a human and not a ROLE. Therefore she was grateful to now be able to let go of her role of a "good mother" and just be herself. I just don't get it. Sounds like to me that she's searching for a place to be comfortable in her own skin. Thank you Lord that you are that place for me. I don't have to worry about being a "good mom". I know that I am a sinner by nature and that I don't always love everything that comes along with being a mom, but God gives me a heart that is new every morning. I don't have to sit and think myself patient, or loving, or let go of myself to be a good mom. I get all that for free because someone else paid the price for my unclean heart.
Some of these woman just sat on the panel on the show talking about how glad they are to have finally figured out about the LAW that governs their lives and the POWER to do this was within them all along. It just took this book (The Secret) and this way of thinking to bring it into existence. One of the ladies said "at your core lies a Stargazer self that has never taken its eyes off your best destiny, and is always working to steer you toward it."
Thank you Jesus for your truth that says:
Psa 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever;
he will be our guide even to the end.
Pro 4:11 I guide you in the way of wisdom and lead you along straight paths.
Isa 42:16 I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths
I will guide them;
I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.
Isa 58:11 The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
Sarabeth is so mobile, it is quite exhausting. She is EVERYWHERE and into everything. She gets stuck in the funniest places. Yesterday she got caught under the kitchen table. Everytime she tried to stand up, she hit her head on the bottom side of the table. It was funny, but only for a minute, then she realized she couldn't get out alone. She is very independent and doesn't like for you to help her out of situations. I have been letting her work her way out of all the places she gets wedged into. She is entertaining for sure.
Here are some random pics from this month:
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