CHAPTER 7: Thought First, Then Feeling

What happens to us does not automatically determine how we feel about it. Between the event and the emotion, our minds quickly interpret what the event means. The story we tell ourselves can turn an ordinary message into fear or a difficult situation into despair. The twelve spies in Numbers 13 saw the same giants, but ten saw themselves as grasshoppers while Joshua and Caleb included God in the equation. The facts were real, but the conclusions were different.

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