Our Brain, Not So Pretty to Look At

Good morning,

I have been watching the cooking channel and the baking shows are all about Halloween. On the show, gross-looking food and the brain with blood all over is a favorite thing they want the bakers to make out of cake for some reason?? Well, I agree the brain is not very pretty to look at, but, our brain is wired for love. You would think the brain would be nice-looking if it is wired for love!! I like to listen to Dr. Caroline Leaf on TV. She is a communication pathologist and audiologist who has worked in the area of cognitive neuroscience since 1985. She is so interesting to me because she has all this science data to back up what the Bible has been saying for centuries.

She has written a new book called The Perfect You. Well, I would love to be the perfect me!! We all would love to be perfect, right?? So, the perfect you is: when we choose, whatever it is we are thinking of, when it lines up with love!! Our bodies literally react and perform best when we balance all our thoughts from that place.

Remember: When God made us he really did wire us for love! It is why we want a partner, why we want children, why we have family, why we want friends, why we are for the underdog, why we want justice, etc. All of it is how we are wired. It is why, when we choose Jesus to come into our lives, He says, “He will renew our minds.” Corruption from the negative world around us and all the evil that we see makes us very fearful and upset.

Dr. Leaf tells how everything comes at us, we upload it, and then we choose.

We make hundreds of thousands of choices every day. We train our brain each and every day by the choices we make. Some choose fear-based logic. Some choose love-based logic. There are hundreds of ways we choose our logic. Have you ever noticed that a family with multiple children, raised by the same parents can be so different? One child is happy-go-lucky, one is anxious all the time, one is responsible, one is lucky to find their shoes in the morning…

One of the easiest misperceptions to talk about is love. Many people think love is a feeling. Love is a choice, not a feeling. This is how the Bible describes love:

LOVE IS:
patient,
kind,
love does not envy or boast,
it is not arrogant or rude,
it does not insist on its own way,
it is not irritable or resentful,
it does not rejoice in wrong doing
but rejoices with the truth,
love bears all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4

Those are choices we choose to extend to people or not. When we choose to extend them, we are using our wiring for the purpose God made us: to glorify Him and live in love. What is a feeling, how positive our emotions are when we extend those choices to people!! The coolest part is we can rewire our brain by taking every thought captive and choosing what we will do with it. It is why hearing, watching, and reading the Bible is so important!! We learn how much freedom we have to be calm, happy, joyful in every circumstance because we have so much from a loving God. We can be thankful!

Man, we are made so awesome! Our creator is a loving God, not mad or even in a bad mood!! Jesus changed everything. We have his righteousness and the more we understand that the more astonishing He becomes!! He gave us choice!! I love that I get the choice to love God, people, and my life. Hallelujah!

Love you, Teri