Focus

Do you ever notice how hard it is to stay focused?
I watched my husband playing catch with Jake today. He said, "Focus, keep your eye on the ball." It was funny watching Jake trying to do just that but then Aislinn would walk by or something else would distract him. Ultimately, Keith hit Jake in the face with the ball. It was not intention but it was painful for Jake and enlightening for me.

I have been trying so hard to stay focused on something. But that something turns into everything. I am trying to stay focused on being a great Mom, a great wife, a hard worker, a good friend, an asset to God, and the list starts to go on and on and what started as a good objective is now another thing I am not doing well. Just like Jake I tried to stay focused but I was focusing on too many things. SIMPLIFY!!! I will not allow the distractions of bad things but also the good things to cloud my vision.

When a good pitcher is throwing the ball, he cannot allow the crowds (whether they are for him or against him), his teammates, the opposition on the field or in the dugouts, or even the managers to distract him. His focus is the catcher and the man he is facing. What is the area that I need to focus on? Whatever that is, I need to whittle the line of vision down to that and ATTACK. I want to have something to show for this life that I am in in right now. I do not want to go in twenty different direction but to harness it all in to ONE direction.