STAYING FOCUSED | Philippians 4:8

I remember as a boy watching a parade and seeing horses wearing with what looked to me like blindfolds, and I asked my dad why they were wearing pieces of cloth around their eye. And my dad who had been raised on a farm, who had worked with horses my dad explained that sometimes horses needed to wear what was called blinders to keep their eyes focused on what was straight ahead rather than being distracted by what was going on around them or behind them.

My dad said that without the blinders, horses that were working or racing could easily startle in fear and runoff, and so you know, with all that's going on in our country today, the pandemic, the political division, the anger that discord, the ugliness... I am thinking that Christians need blinders of sorts to stay focused rather than being distracted by everything that's going on around us. Philosopher Theologian Dallas Willard said that the ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we allow our minds to dwell on. The important word here is, dwell.

What do we allow our minds to dwell on these days, what do we allow our minds to focus on to meditate on?

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