Flip Your Focus

I am learning another great lesson from my son.

He finds treasures everywhere we go. Usually money. Sometimes a dime or penny, maybe a quarter.

One time at Cedar Point, he found $60.00 in twenties on the ground. Everyone else was so busy running around trying to have fun. They were scurrying around from place to place, but not my son. He doesn't look at people. He usually looks down, directly in front of his path.

He frequently gets lost in a group. He is so focused on his path that he rarely realizes that the group has stopped or he has wandered off ahead of everyone.

My son looks directly in front of himself. He doesn't have great foresight, but he enjoys each moment of his life right where he is. He searches for a blessing in every step. Most of the time, no matter where we are, he finds one. People, including me, marvel about it.

Sometimes I scold him for crawling on the floor and for reaching under vending machines. After all, it's dirty and a bit embarrassing.

The thing is though, he is expecting to find a treasure. He's learned from experience where the most likely places to find them are. He doesn't care about the dirt. He doesn't care what others will think. He knows the reward.

I remember when he was 2 years old,(true story) There was a penny wedged in the door latch facing of our bathroom. His sister had shoved it in there before he was born. The door wouldn't close properly, but I didn't know how to fix it nor did his father. We had just learned to live with it.

One day I discovered my son standing in front of the door, with his Dad's screwdriver . He had unscrewed the facing, took out the penny and screwed it back together. There he stood, penny in one hand and screwdriver in the other. He wasn't afraid to work for his blessing. He found a way.

I am sure that he saw the penny many times before that day. It was at his eye level, after all. He could see the blessing, but it was out of reach.

He didn't give up. He wanted the prize and he studied it until he found an answer and then went to work. He didn't accept my answer, "It won't come out." He made a way.

How many times do we learn to live with it; less than perfect circumstances, less than perfect health or finances?

Too often we focus our attention on our problems, not on the prize.

Flip your focus. Don't talk to God about your problem. Talk to your problem about your Big God!

Praise Him!