Chasing Squirrels
We love watching squirrels in our neck of the woods. However, chasing those squirrels never works. Smaller and faster, they disappear before we can get out the door.
Yet we often succeed at chasing squirrels in other ways.
Chasing squirrels means we lose focus.
We get distracted and as a result, waste time. Rather than concentrate on our work, we notice everything else around us. For example,
- “Oh, look! I saw a squirrel.”
- Or butterfly
- Or cute baby
- Or airplane
- Or anything except what we should see.
Chasing squirrels differs from chasing rabbits.
Chasing squirrels means we get distracted. Chasing rabbits means we get off subject. Both can be fun. Both can also cause problems if we fail to refocus or get back on subject.
After our squirrel moments, we want to hightail our minds back where they should be.
Always look in the right direction.
That includes to:
- The work before us
- The needs around us
- God’s plan for us
“We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV).
Thanks to Melissa Henderson for the suggestion.
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