Focus Point

Game, Set, Match

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I saw my breath curl out in smoking tendrils against the cold as he leaned forward to peer into my eyes. Then he tilted his head and pressed his ice cold lips to mine. I kissed him back, the need to warm him up an almost frantic urge that I struggled to force down. The kiss was slow and deep and the cold seemed to burrow down inside of me until it found my heart to place an aching emptiness there. We stood there a moment, holding each other as the cold seeped through his clothes and danced its painful fingers across my skin. Then he told me to close my eyes so I did. Stepping back to put a little space between us, he peppered frigid kisses across my nose and eyes. When the suns warmth caressed my face a moment later, I knew he was gone. I opened my eyes to see the sun had just come from behind a cloud and its warmth enveloped me.

I woke up in the middle of the night one night to jot this down in my journal. I’ve been waking at 3am quite often lately and that’s when this writing came to me. It’s about where you place your focus in life. Looking ahead, or at the ground disappearing under our feet.

If we focus on the cold, the loneliness, and the darkness, that’s what we will be gifted. Any goodness and positivity there is fleeting. If we focus on those things we have lost and the possibility of losing anything else, we immobilize ourselves with fear. Hold on to that and it holds onto you.

If we focus on the beautiful things we desire, the warmth of the sun, the love God has for us, and the many blessings He is waiting to bestow, then that is what we will be gifted. Hold on to that and it will set you free. All that is good, warm, positive, and loving is not fleeting. It is real and here to stay in one form or another as long as you will have it.

Are you focused on the dark side of the moon? Or are you focused on the horizon, waiting for the sun you know will peek over it at any moment? Putting your focus in the right spot may be all you need to win the game of life.

40-Love in the first game of tennis becomes game, set, match. That means you win! I think the coolest thing about tennis is that 0 is called love. The losing opponent, the one who is getting absolutely tromped? Their score is LOVE! How is that for positivity!

Do you have things that you need to shift your focus on? What is your first step to doing that?