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Wednesday, January 29, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Scottie Wisdom&Faith Jean Russell Nave Scotties’ paradigm Scotties see the world from their own special per- spective. Their worldview, or life paradigm, is focused on food, shelter, safety, love and play. If all these things are in abundance the Scotties are content. What is the focus of your life? A while ago I had a sig- nificant paradigm shift. I read an amazing book, <The Sermon on the Mount,= by Emmet Fox. He was such an inspiring speaker that during the 1920s and 930s he filled some of the largest halls and churches in New York City with standing-room-only throngs. He also wrote doz- ens of books, many of which are still in print, including the one above. The reason for my para- digm shift was Fox9s empha- sis on putting your life9s focus on the basic teachings of Christ; eliminating all the theological paraphernalia that has gathered around for- mal Christianity during the past two millennia. When I was young I was given my grandmother9s <red let- ter= Bible. I often said that I wished Christianity would just focus on the red letters, which are Jesus9 words. In essence, that is what Fox preached. Fox9s Sunday sermons helped to inspire a genera- tion of best-selling books, including <The Power of Positive Thinking= and <Think and Grow Rich.= His paradigm9s emphasis was on affirmative prayer; developing a style of prayer framed in a positive lan- guage: for instance saying, <Lord, thank you for giving me health and prosperity,= rather than asking to receive those things. Then he guided people to recognize that Christ is always with them, ready to help. Eventually people learned to retain a positive attitude about every- thing; especially thinking positively about all people they knew and worked with. Fox said again and again in his books, <See the Christ in every person.= Not easy, I9ve found, but so helpful when I do it. He also told people to believe that God wanted their lives to be filled with joy, peace, good health and all that they needed to prosper4this is the <daily bread= mentioned in The Lord9s Prayer. He told peo- ple to act and believe that way all the time and health and happiness would come to them. His concepts were based upon the red letters in my grandmother9s Bible. Through his books I found what I had been looking for. I needed to hear it pre- sented in his amazing style to finally internalize what Christ worked so hard to tell us 2,000 years ago. Scotties focus first on food, shelter and safety. Abraham Maslow built his 20th century psychol- ogy career on his Pyramid of Human Needs, of which those items were its founda- tion. Maslow believed that all people must have food, shelter and safety before they ascend to higher val- ues where they can eventu- ally reach the top level of self-actualization. Christ told us not to worry about those basic needs. 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