The deal is not to get your attention – it’s to keep it. A lot of effort goes into getting attention. Some go out of the way to put together spectacular events with outstanding marketing to grab the attention. After all, if the marketing is done well and the event is spectacular it is bound […]
Read More Getting and Keeping AttentionThere’s this habit some have in the game. The season is happening and observers are making comments about how the team are doing compared to how they did in the previous season. This is even though what happens in the previous season will not determine the outcome of the present one. They will compare points […]
Read More Focus On Your Own Game NowIf only she didn’t turn back. The instructions were clear. We were told to leave. Leave as soon as possible because there was a major development taking place in the city and if we stayed we would be swept up in it and would not survive. I was very clear to my daughters and my […]
Read More No Turning BackIt never fails to fascinate me. Two people are in the same situation but respond to it in such contrasting ways that it makes you wonder if they really are in the same situation. Then on closer inspection it is apparent that one has some light on the predicament that gives them an approach to […]
Read More In The Light Of The CircumstancesFocus on the light. It makes for a great guide and a great guide is needed for the journey ahead. One of the pictures that comes to me about life is a lot like the imagery of a dense forest. The trees are tall and full of branches that at times can appear to obscure […]
Read More Comfort and Direction with The LightThat’s got to be quite a life. You’re born in a society where you and your people are oppressed as you’re strangers in a strange land. By some miraculous moves, you are finally liberated to pursue a life of your own. Only to discover a few moments later just as you reach a tough point […]
Read More How Can You Look Ahead?Commentators do quite a job. The action is going on and they have to be sensitive to it and be able to give guidance for the viewer on it. It’s a challenge on all media, but it’s got to be something in particular for the visual medium. Someone does something – the viewer can see […]
Read More Giving Commentary: A Job Of FocusThere is something about the drive of anyone with great ambition. That capacity to stay focused on their objective to the cost of everything else. In some ways it’s an admirable quality. In other ways it can be rather disturbing especially when applied to wicked ends. It says a lot about their appetite that they […]
Read More Appetite and the MindWhat keeps me going among other than is what I am going towards. It’s like no matter how many times I read or hear of being a new creation in Christ and the old passed away and the new has come and the new heavens and earth and the New Jerusalem – the newness of […]
Read More … To The NewI look at myself sometimes and think what a lethargic, lazy slob I am. I quickly shake myself from that and get to the meat of the matter of how I am to be. This week in particular, scriptures about training have come up big time. Like this one. I read this and in line […]
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