From this statement, you will understand that the subconscious mind will
translate into its physical equivalent, a thought impulse of a negative or
destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a
positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon
which so many millions of people experience, referred to as misfortune,” or
“bad luck.” There are millions of people who BELIEVE themselves doomed
to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they
BELIEVE they have no control. They are the creators of their own
misfortunes,” because of this negative BELIEF, which is picked up by the
subconscious mind, and translated into its physical equivalent.
Stories of survival always fascinate me, whenever I can get a chance to hear a story or even watch a documentary about one I do. I remember a month a so ago I watched a documentary about 3 WWll soldiers whose plane had crashed in the Pacific ocean. The men were set a drift on a
small boat for 47 days. Being stranded on a raft in the ocean is enough to do most people in. Also as I watched the documentary the little food and water supply quickly disappeared and I thought surely 1 of the 3 would not make it. Since there was no water or food I surely thought it couldn’t get any worse than that, but it did. Sharks suddenly began to circle the raft on a regular basis and the men used the paddles to fight them off. No food or water and shark circling the raft it look pretty bleak for the soldiers. Suddenly the men got an idea to kill a shark and eat it, for a couple of days the men were satiated. A couple of days later the men were without food and water again. Despondent and hungry the men heard a plane and shot off their last flare to gain the passengers attention. The plane did come in their direction but it started to shoot at the men in the raft. The men pretended to be dead so that the plane would stop shooting. The plane went away however bullets had damaged the raft and it started to sink. On top of this the sharks started their circling act again. One of men without a minutes notice went to a repair kit and found puddy to men the hole as another man fought off the sharks. The men also survived this segment of misfortune. However, one of the men who honestly didn’t appear to have the thirst to live soon succumb to starvation and died. The other two buried at sea, strangely enough as stated by the narrator the other men never considered cannibalism. Hungry and starving days later the men looked out to sea and saw land. Happy and delighted the men paddle towards the land but before the made it to land they were in what was described as a hurricane which almost tilted the raft over. Wow, they made it I thought and it made me feel so so good to see them make it to land. However, when they made it to land it was enemy territory and they were placed into a concentration camp into the war ended. Man, this was not a story book ending, no one would want to see this at the movies.
I was somewhat mad about the ending because it was anticlimactic in my opinion. However, the story stayed on my mind for weeks. This is some real life stuff I thought to myself, and it finally hit me that this event chronicled the life of Believers. The thing was that I watched this in a documentary, it already happened. I pretty much knew what the out come would be, but those men who were involved in the situation at the time didn’t have a crystal ball to look into the future. But they did have their Faith and the desire to live. The strength of the latter two determined what men would live and who would die. More importantly my take away from this story was that the winners in life are those who truly believe that no matter what the situation is they will gain victory. Also in the midst of hard times the Faithful don’t sit and let the ship sink they take action.
Gerrie
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