Dr. Jess Hendley was a short-term but powerful mentor in my life. He preached next-to-his last message at North Glencoe Baptist Church. His topic was "Picture Galleries of the Mind." His point was that in every experience of life we hang a picture of God in our mind that we develop through that experience. Sometime those pictures of God are wrong and when we realize they are wrong, we need to take the old picture down and replace it with the new picture.
I think he would have loved this story:
There is a story of a ninety-two-year-old lady who was moving into a nursing home. As she was being wheeled down the corridor, the attendant began to describe the room. "I love it," the old women gushed. "But you haven't even seen the room yet," the attendant reminded her. "That doesn't have anything to do with it,"she replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged. It's how I arrange my mind."
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