Paolo Punzalan.com » Focus http://paolopunzalan.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:37:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 COTTON CANDY FOCUS http://paolopunzalan.com/2009/05/cotton-candy-focus/ http://paolopunzalan.com/2009/05/cotton-candy-focus/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 13:16:47 +0000 Paolo Punzalan http://paolopunzalan.com/?p=250 Ryan's Cotton CandyI took my 5 year old son, Ryan to a professional basketball game (PBA). He was enjoying the game for the first 2 quarters. However, when half-time hit, there were hawkers that were selling all kinds of stuff – from Pizzas to Pepsi, ice tea to ice cream.

One particular item caught my son’s attention… cotton candy.

He asked me to buy it. Wanting to be a kind and generous father, I got him one so he can enjoy the game while eating it. But as the game progressed, I noticed that he was more consumed about his cotton candy than the game that was actually pretty exciting.

I thought about how sometimes we start off wanting to live our lives for God but along the way, we get distracted. We’re excited, we’re focused and we know why we’re there. But stuff comes along and we lose our focus.

I guess that’s exactly why God, no matter how generous a Father He is, doesn’t give us everything we ask for right at the moment we ask for it. He knows we’ll end up focusing on the blessing more than the Blesser.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith… (Hebrews 12:2)

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