I was at church last night thinking about my job. That happens a lot... come to think of it, thoughts about frustrations at work often interrupt me at home, at church, when I'm driving, when I'm sleeping.. well... just about all the time.

So I began to wonder why work above everything else is my prevailing thought, the thought that trumps everything else - that influences how I see my day, that can turn a great situation into a lousy one just because I'm thinking about work.

It's really annoying. And it's because my current work situation may be the most stressful situation that I've been in that has stretched over this amount of time.

As I thought about it last night it began to seem a little silly - that my prevailing consuming thought was one of frustration. While it may be the most emotionally impacting situation I'm in every day, it's definately not a positive one.

Shouldn't God be my prevailing thought? David seemed to think so in the Psalms. And while I don't feel that on a daily basis Jesus is the most emotionally impacting factor in my life, he is definately the best thing that's happened to me... every day.

So I'm going to try this out - making God: father, son, holy spirit; my prevailing thought. The thought that interrupts me at work, at home, at church, when I'm sleeping.

My guess is that this is one of the spiritual disciplines, just formulated differently.

Well.... here goes.