Do you lot intend the drinking glass is one-half empty or one-half full? I acknowledge I’m oft pessimistic, non a godly quality. And according to about studies, it’s likewise non a salubrious quality.
"Since 1986, University of Kentucky scientist David Snowdon has been studying 678 School Sisters [nuns]--painstakingly researching their personal in addition to medical histories, testing them for cognitive constituent in addition to fifty-fifty dissecting their brains later death.”*
One finding of Snowdon’s “Nun Study” is this: nuns who limited positive emotions are less probable to railroad train Alzheimer’s than those who limited negative emotions.
Pessimism isn’t salubrious for our minds. Joy is!
In Philippians 4, Paul likewise makes this point:
- “Rejoice inwards the Lord always. I volition tell it again: Rejoice!” (4:4)
- “Do non endure anxious well-nigh anything, simply inwards every situation…with thanksgiving introduce your requests to God.” (4:6)
- “whatever is true…noble…right…pure…lovely…admirable …think well-nigh such things” (4:8)
copyright Gail Burton Purath, 2011
* Time Magazine, the Nun Study, May 14, 2001
On Tuesdays I release a devotion from the 2011 archive. If you'd similar to read two devotions today, you lot tin read "Living inwards a Small Box."
-----------------------* Time Magazine, the Nun Study, May 14, 2001
On Tuesdays I release a devotion from the 2011 archive. If you'd similar to read two devotions today, you lot tin read "Living inwards a Small Box."
