Ed opinion:  listened to a mini concert of some old music from my era: John Denver, Elvis, Andy Williams, Beach boys, etc. Some of the lyrics and melodies got me thinking.

Thinking tenderly of all the emotions stirred up in my earlier years. Of all the comings and goings,  finding and seeking, courting and marrying, then living. All the mistakes, sins, failures, victories, and epiphanies that the music of our youth talked about then.  But now in my older years I can hear and recognize the feelings and the beliefs behind them.

Lord, give me the strength, courage and revelation to act on these new “understandings” in a godly way that I would now be wise in your sight.   I see the beauty and power and overwhelming benefit of “God’s way” in regard to healing and being free in our thought life. In every life there is mental “stuff”: strongholds, high places, pretentions, and arguments, that holds itself up against the knowledge of God.   Wealth and fame only increase the drama of the consequences if these issues are not resolved and brought into submission and disciplined according to the ways and word of God.