Here is a thought for you:
When you are so entrenched in your own thoughts, and particularly when then these thoughts tend toward yourself, you miss out on the goodness around you and forget to live.
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One day, in the apple orchard, the ant approached the daisy and said: Daisy, you look happy and pleasant no matter what is going on around you. What is the secret to your poise?
The daisy smiled and said: Ant, it is no secret. You see, the only thing I do is to realize that the sky is blue and the grass is green and it makes me very happy and well.
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If you could be another person, who would you be? This question is asked frequently in the meetings of strangers and the confidings of friends. It’s a revealing question, for it uncovers the priorities in a person’s heart. When all is said and done, people will choose to embody that which they most esteem—whether it be a matter of finance or virtue or beauty. But when the question is laid plain, the faults of the proposition come to be seen. If a person is asked to forsake his identity, only to replace it with someone else’s, the issue is not, “what does this person esteem?,” but rather, “how can this person learn to love his self as much as any other identity that is possible for him?” When we shift our thinking to this line of reasoning, we find that the faults in our character are easier and better to accept than a whole new identity that is foreign to us. How would we contend with the disconnect? You can never be sure how to inhabit someone else’s mind, someone else’s body. It will always be a mismatched experience; there will be a sense that something is missing, something is not right.
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This is the beginning of wisdom, that you will call your GOD by name and He will answer you in love.
Of all the people in your life whom you seek to please, none is so intractably fond of you as GOD. He is delighted in your ways and wants to show you how much He loves you every moment of your life. There is no separation from His love.