Focus or Flounder? How do you engage with life?
Without intention most of us flounder through life with only a vague notion of our priorities. Focus is a choice. There are many habits/practices that can sharpen focus. One practice that has sharpened my focus is to write.
When I write I discover there is more clarity in my perspective…Writing has become an effective way to better understand what I am really feeling and thinking. The biggest problem I have is that the urgent things in life always seem to interfere with my quest to “discover write”. I need discipline to write consistently so I am beginning this blog, not to get noticed rather to have a positive impact on my own focus as I invite others to join me in this quest of focus, to have life with intention.
I recently read the following exert from Henri Nouwen regarding writing:
Writing can be a true spiritual discipline. Writing can help us to concentrate, to get in touch with the deeper stirrings of our hearts, to clarify our minds, to process confusing emotions, to reflect on our experiences, to give artistic expression to what we are living, and to store significant events in our memories. Writing can also be good for others who might read what we write.
His words are a motivation for me to pursue this blog and the habit of focus. This will be a discipline I will be using to pursue a a clearer focus of my heart, soul, mind, body. Focus for me is best articulated in the following verse:
And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment.
Mark 12:30 (AMP)
Holy living is Wholly living….. focus is paramount!
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