Voices In My Head

I know what you're thinking...time for a referral to a good mental health professional...she hears voices. Come on, be honest, you do to. I'll give you some "for instances":
      When I bake a pie it's my mom in my head, "if you don't quit messing with that dough it's going to be tough as card board."
      When I get ready to leave on a road trip it's my dad, "did you check the oil, did you check the tires, do you have flares and tools?"
       When I'm writing, it's a composite of all of my English teachers, "is that a sentence or a paragraph or both?, Seriously, how did you manage to write the whole essay without one spelling error?" I really did do that and without spell check. After a year of constant red marks for spelling, I did the whole final exam with no spelling errors. When asked how I did it I told him the truth. If I wasn't sure how to spell the word I just used another one I was sure of. He just laughed and said "I'm glad you have a good vocabulary."

The point is everything anyone has every told us is in our heads, good and bad and it's up to us to decide which voices we are going to believe and which ones we are going to listen to. There's a good deal of trash talk in my head, more of it came from me than I'd like to admit. You know the dialog..."why are you even trying to do that, you know you can't? Why can't you stop eating stuff you shouldn't, look at you, do you ever look in the mirror and what, pray tell, is up with that hair?"

You can listen to all that trash you've generated or had donated or you can read what God has to say. What does God say you are, what does He say you can do or be? If you're going to listen to voices at least make it one with something worthwhile to say.