Some random thoughts

A parachute can be a burden or it can save your life. Depends on if you're climbing a mountain or jumping out of an airplane.

A fire can destroy or provide warmth.

Learning to know the difference.

Feelings and emotions are like the parachute or the fire.  They can bring light or darkness.  They are like children, they need boundaries and structure and discipline to live a joyful and productive life.

[W]e can examine the thoughts, beliefs and patterns that are running through our minds and ask, Will this thought help me evolve and thrive or will it hinder me?

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Cor 10:3-5)

In our Lord’s life every project was disciplined to the will of His Father. There was never the slightest tendency to follow the impulse of His own will as distinct from His Father’s will— “the Son can do nothing of Himself…” (John 5:19). . . But true determination and zeal are found in obeying God, not in the inclination to serve Him that arises from our own undisciplined human nature. . . we are to “be transformed by the renewing of [our] mind….”