A little boy was taken to the dentist. He had a cavity that needed to be filled.

“Now, young man,” asked the dentist, “what kind of filling would you like for that tooth?”

The youngster thought for a moment and replied, “Chocolate.”

That young man is a positive thinker.

It seems to me that we don’t hear as much about positive thinking as we used to. Some of you will remember when, under the influence of the late, great Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, positive thinking was the rage. “If you can think it, you can do it!” was the basic message.

Robert Schuller repackaged Dr. Peale’s message as “possibility thinking,” but Dr. Schuller’s son is now taking the lead in that ministry, and it seems to have lost some of its steam, as well. And yet, who can deny that a positive attitude is an importan…