Confession One: I'm Not Always Focused part 2

   So yeah, it has been awhile since I have blogged anything, I guess you can say that I am not always focus. It seems that in my life that life make me too busy. It is a rare occasion for me to just sit and do nothing, in fact I don't think I even know how to sit and do nothing. They say that there is a pot of gold at the end of rainbow and that silence is golden, so do that mean at the end of every rainbow there is a pot of gold? I mean the purpose of the rainbow according to the bible is that it is a promise from God. So if I put all this together, is it that God is saying that his promise is for us to receive the reward of silence, or even more important peace after the storms have all past? I don't know for sure but it is something to think about.
   Now back to the topic at hand how do you take someone, as myself, and get them to focus on that task at hand. As many people I have a million and one things going through my head at one time and I sometime can't process what all needs to get done and which items I am thinking need to be chopped. I guess to start is to look at where I lose focus. Everyone is different but for me there are several areas I will lose focus in and when I do it seems to effect all areas of my life.
   I want to start with the first one and that is: Purpose. There have been many times that I have lost focus on what my purpose is. My purpose as a pastor, parent, spouse, friends, and child of God. I have found that once I lose this focus everything seems out of balance in my life. I know that most of you have experience this before or have ask the question, "What am I here for?" Which I think is an important question. If we don't understand what we are here for then what good are we. But then comes the question, "Can we fully know what we are here for?" and I think that is a complex questions with a simple answer, "no". At this point in my life I would have to say no, but I could come back in tens years and change this answer, but here is why I say no. I think God uses each person differently and there are many ways that he uses us that we are aware of, but there are a lot of things that we do that God uses that we never know about. I don't think we will fully know this until we reach heaven. But should this stop us from trying to reach our full purpose in this life and once again I say, "Noooooooo!"I think each of us should strive to fulfill God's purpose for our lives daily and this is how I regain my focus. When I realize that I am losing site of where I am and what I am here for. I use scriptures, dreams, and words that were from God to remind me that I am here for a purpose, even if I don't what it is. As a pastor I have the purpose to share the word of God. As a spouse and father I have the purpose to love, provide and protect my family. As a friend I have a purpose to be there for those who I call friend in good times as well as bad times. And as a child of God I have a purpose to love and obey my Heavenly Father with everything that I have.
Here soon I am going to put up part three in which we will look at signs that we are losing our focus and some other areas that I have lost focus at times.