SHARE THIS POSTDo you ever find that you’re so busy that you CAN’T FOCUS on what is right in front of you? Do you ever find that sometimes your priorities can be a little out of balance?
Sometimes I get so busy working that I do not carve out enough focused time to spend with my daughter Ashtyn.
She’ll want me to spend time with her, all the while I find myself looking down at my phone because I have to finish just one last email. I don’t have all the answers, but deep in my heart I know this is wrong. You see, my mind is everywhere except focused on spending it with her.
Maybe she’ll say, “Dad, can you push me on the swing like when I was little? You don’t do it anymore.”
I reply, “It’s because you know how to swing yourself now.”
But deep down she was giving me the plea, Dad will you pay attention to me? We both know the answer to that one.
The one thing that I’m trying to recalibrate in my life, is that when I’m with Ashtyn, I want to truly be there with her.
When I’m with my “career” THEN I can be with it. The challenge is that it seems like I’m never truly 100% anywhere.
To make matters worse, on the way home I heard the lines from Kenny Chesney song, ‘Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think, so don’t blink.’
I turned off the radio FAST because the last thing I wanted was for the next song to be the one by Trace Adkins “You’re gonna miss this, you’re gonna want this back.”
The Bible clearly teaches us to raise our children in the way that they should go. My question is do I want her to go in the same direction? Do you have a similar question that you’re facing in your life?
