Gift of a Sound Mind

This book is a helpful sharing of how God works through the spiritual disciplines to bring us to wholeness, to the maturity which is the reflection of His image. We all live with tensions of conflicting demands. But we do not need to return to a past era or withdraw from our social responsibility to deal with our lives. God would give to each of us "the gift of a sound mind." The forces working against wholeness include misusing our bodies by overeating, allowing work to break up family life, and the psychological defense mechanism of excuses, blaming, judging. Finally, there is TV, the ever-present competitor for our minds. James E. Johnson suggests specific self-disciplines to help us find and maintain emotional, mental, and spiritual health. He focuses on meditation, work, fasting, and prayer. "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7).