Faith, Belief and Focus

“Grant me the courage to change the things I can change,

the serenity to accept the things I can't

and the wisdom to know the difference."

~ The Serenity Prayer

It really matters not how many times you have heard that prayer prior to this time, what matters is to have it when you need it. We all need reminded.

Today it goes on in several places where I will see it. My mirror, my Iphone, my car.  I have grown weary of trying to understand what is not within my grasp.

I lay it before God.  In prayer this morning I lay my anxiety at his word.

Do not be anxious about anything,

but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,

present your requests to God.

And the peace of God which transcends all understanding

will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

~Philippians 4:6,7

If it is that simple why does not everyone just do it....  The question and the answer which is even more frequent.

Faith ~ Belief ~ Focus ~

Faith in the word, Gods word.

So many of us have kids, teenagers, an their focus is on fun, friends and food....lol  They think they have it all, right inside their teenage minds, know it all.

Sure it does not help that we stumble and make choices that seem poor, bad judgment, end up wrong.

Our children of course do look to us for direction.

We look to our heavenly father for direction.  He never stumbles, he never has bad judgment and nothing God presents us is wrong.

So that is why we need to present our children and our teenage youth the word of their heavenly father.  He never fails man.

Belief in God, his word and our future

All of us have beliefs, some are in God, others in what they can see in the physical sense, themselves.

Some trust and and belief in no one but themselves.

'Trust in no one, depend only on yourself'  a phrase I have heard before that still resonates in my head.

What a set up to allow anyone to believe that you can't trust or depend on anyone but yourself.  It is a very lonely existence. Cold in the fact that when we fall, or fail or fumble we are not trusting or depending on anyone to pick us up, to have our back.

Sad indeed.

Love has no flaws, we weaken love by our actions and deeds.

Love is perfect only we can imperfect it.

Focus on the present.

Easier said than done right.  When we set goals, and when we set our mind to a task that we want to achieve, things happen.

Motion and action creates results.

When we pray, an action - we seek God.  We give praise.

When we speak gratitude, an action - we send out energy and words into our world that reflects back on us.

When we laugh, an action - we breathe deeper, we smile longer, we send our brain positive waves that cascade like a river of water over the stones underneath.

Things will change

Pray ~ Speak Gratitude ~ Laugh out Loud

Each Day *  Every Day

Your focus and actions mean everything : )

Smiles sent your way   :  )

09/18/11