Thoughts about thoughts

I have become fascinated with thoughts.  Every moment of every day, even as we sleep our minds are producing thoughts.  Something is always going on up there.  And as the scriptures attest, "As a man thinketh, so is he", so shouldn't we be a little more interested in what we think about?  Day dreaming can be fun and inventive, but to let our lives be constantly involved with just random idle thoughts can't be very motivating or uplifting, can it?  How often have you heard someone begin an apology or explanation with the words, "I just thought"?  I believe that we can be and even must be in charge of what we think about and I believe that what we choose to think about while we are conscious effects what our minds do while we sleep.  Ever spend a restless night after having an argument with someone or watching a scary movie that replays in all your dreams?  Another example, have you ever spent a day trying to work out a solution to a problem, gone to sleep and during that sleep had the solution come to you?  Perhaps your mind was working away on your waking thoughts and was able to solve the problem. 
  So if thoughts are so important, I want to be in control of what I think about.  I will not surrender my mind to outside interests, be that friends, movies, internet, or other evil interests. 

Tme and Thoughts

    Ever started to do something, and thought you would just wait a few minutes and think about how to do it, and then in seemingly the blink of an eye two months has gone by.  That is what happened to me.  I really wanted to have this blog follow my spring gardening and my new found interested in growing my mind, but then here I am in the middle of May and haven't written a word.
   Well, enough with the whining and on with the thinking.  As the snows melted and I wandered around the yard watching for the first signs of life, I knew that preventing some things from growing was a high priority in my yard.  I was determined to get ahead of the weeds this year in those areas that I want to keep free of growth like around our barns and in the play yard.
  It is like that in my mind. Wandering among the recesses, I see places that are fertile and ready for something to grow but I don't want it to be just any useless thought.  I have begun evaluating more carefully what I want to plant in my mind and what random, valueless thoughts, that only choke out the good stuff, I want to be free of. 
   I want to plan what grows in the yard just as I want to plan what thoughts I think. Ah, a good plan--the first step.