Scaffolding Your Thoughts

Scaffolding is breaking up the learning into chunks and providing a tool, or structure, with each chunk. When scaffolding reading, for example, you might preview the text and discuss key vocabulary, or chunk the text and then read and discuss as you go. -Edutopia.com

 

In my words, scaffolding is when you teach a simple idea or concept, and then you add on to it gets deeper and more complex. The core idea is there, but it gets buried by advanced concepts and meanings. 

 

Think of math, we learned 2+2=4. Later on we expand our knowledge on the concept and see that 2x2=4. On further down the road we learn that 2 to the 2nd power is 4. 

 

Today’s thought is a switcheroo tactic. When faced with a lie or negative thought concerning you. Switch it with a truth. Not only switch it, but also start bury it with a ton of truths, that will weave a complex web of truth. 

 

It’s almost the same principle behind a web of lies, you tell an “untruth” to get out of something, but you have to tell another one to cover that lie and then another one to cover this lie, until the person has been so swallowed up they don’t even know what happened. 

 

Say if someone says an untruth about you: “I would like myself if I had this feature.”

*switch it with a truth: “This is me and I like me“

• Start to bury it in truths: I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 
• But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
• Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

 

Fortify yourself with positive thoughts and true inner strength.