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Just saw another good movie last night called “Freedom Writers.” On one hand it’s yet another “teacher-against-all-odds-but-reaches-the-under-privileged-urban-youth” movie. On the other hand it was a real story so that gives it some validity. The premise was an upper-crust lady decides to teach at one of the toughest high schools in Long Beach, CA – full of wide-eyed optimism and such. She evens wears June Cleaver pearls to class. During the course of the movie she begins to “reach” them and finds her focus in life – namely a class of kids. The saddest part of the movie was not the arrests, the drugs, or the violence but rather the fact that her husband – while watching his wife find her focus in life – was neither finding his nor really searching for one. He had hoped they would make some money and just coast along through life. She encouraged him to go for his dreams but it seemed he didn’t want to. Spoiler Alert He leaves her. So…Find your focus. Find someone you can search, dream, and do it together – whether it’s a spouse or a group of friends or coworkers.
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Yeah. Finding your focus (or what should be your focus) in life is not alwayse an easy thing. I find myself going, “Okay God. Here I go! Now C’mon and go with me!” I don’t like to sit still doing nothing “waiting on God” because sometimes I think people get lost in that and end up just waiting on everything and never move until God just drops something in there lap(which He may or may not do). I heard someone say that God can’t stear a bike that’s not moving. That struck a chord with me; only, I know that has it’s problems too. I’m so gun-how that what ends up happening is I’m maximizing opportunity, and take a rout that wasn’t in God’s plan for me. I hear God stay “STOP!” a lot. I’m getting good at hearing God say, “No, don’t do that. Or stop! You shouldn’t have done that!”. But staying still and getting God’s opinnion BEFORE I make a move; that’s not so easy for me. It’s okay just to choose and then let God tell me I’m right or wrong when I’m already in it on the smaller choices, but the really big ones? I don’t need to be in the middle of it before I figure out I’ve moved to the wrong state {Or worse; Married the wrong man!!!!!!} Yeah, so I’m trying to find out how to hear God before hand… about my perpose – what HE thinks my perpose for me is. It’s not hard for me to find something to go after and fully invest myself in to and focus, but Making sure that it’s the RIGHT focus, yeah. There’s the problem.
Comment by Mallory Jen September 18, 2007 @ 3:31 pm