Focus

It's been a few good days. Friday I had my review and it was pretty positive. Saturday I gave a presentation to the Northern Kentucky Craft Guild and that went very well. Today I caught an earlier bus and got to work early. My diet is going well even though the weight loss has slowed.

But yesterday my brother, the pastor, gave an interesting talk. It was on the verse in Matthew where Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is like a man who finds a treasure in a field, then re-buries it and sells everything he has and buys the field. I've always thought about this story as being a discussion about the value of the treasure. That's the way I've always heard it explained. That was really the core of what my brother spoke about. However, It dawned on me that it is also about letting go. This guy who found the treasure could have just taken it and then kept his other stuff too. But he didn't want to take a chance on losing the treasure by having his ownership questioned. He was willing to let go of all the other stuff. It's really a story about focus. The value of the treasure made him focus on it.

That's my word for this week. I want to be focused on the most important stuff and be willing to let all the other stuff go.