Comments on: Where Is Your Focus? http://newfreethinkers.com/2009/where-is-your-focus/ Insight from a New Generation Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:09:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nathan Hardt http://newfreethinkers.com/2009/where-is-your-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-1886 Nathan Hardt Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:47:02 +0000 http://newfreethinkers.com/?p=290#comment-1886 awesome article. that's right where I'm at. awesome article. that’s right where I’m at.

]]> By: Bishop Hanson http://newfreethinkers.com/2009/where-is-your-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-1790 Bishop Hanson Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:31:58 +0000 http://newfreethinkers.com/?p=290#comment-1790 Good confessions. Good tips. Your testimonies and questions are great for others to think about. Good confessions. Good tips. Your testimonies and questions are great for others to think about.

]]> By: Philip Hanson http://newfreethinkers.com/2009/where-is-your-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-1785 Philip Hanson Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:47:26 +0000 http://newfreethinkers.com/?p=290#comment-1785 "I forget that I can keep my attention upon God through the repetitive aspects of the day." That's a powerful truth to realize -- just because what I'm doing is uninspiring, I don't have to be uninspired. Maybe my workplace is drab and cheerless, but I can still be genuinely happy if my focus is in the right place. When I worked in the cardboard factory, my job was tedious and the machines broke down all the time. Nothing in the plant was worth getting excited about except quitting time. What's a poor factory worker to do? Well, first of all I decided not to let the problems with the machines get to me. I started to enjoy fixing them instead. Next, I kept my area clean all the time. That was the cleanest section of conveyor belt anywhere in the factory. Finally, I sang Phillips, Craig, and Dean songs all day long (those were the only CDs I had back then!), which also explains why I know them all by heart. I had to focus on what was good just so that I could still see it. “I forget that I can keep my attention upon God through the repetitive aspects of the day.”

That’s a powerful truth to realize — just because what I’m doing is uninspiring, I don’t have to be uninspired. Maybe my workplace is drab and cheerless, but I can still be genuinely happy if my focus is in the right place.

When I worked in the cardboard factory, my job was tedious and the machines broke down all the time. Nothing in the plant was worth getting excited about except quitting time. What’s a poor factory worker to do?

Well, first of all I decided not to let the problems with the machines get to me. I started to enjoy fixing them instead. Next, I kept my area clean all the time. That was the cleanest section of conveyor belt anywhere in the factory. Finally, I sang Phillips, Craig, and Dean songs all day long (those were the only CDs I had back then!), which also explains why I know them all by heart. I had to focus on what was good just so that I could still see it.

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