Focus on Your Focus
Ask any photographer, they?ll tell you?one thing is essential for great photos: FOCUS.
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Dennis Rainey: Ask any photographer, they’ll tell you—one thing is essential for great photos: FOCUS.
Guest: Obviously, in photography you need to make sure things are in focus. If you don't, you're not going to get a quality picture. Certainly not one that you're going to show off or frame. So you want things to be focused and properly framed to get the best result.[ Read Full Transcript ]
Dennis Rainey: I’d like to submit to you that in romance, as with photography, what you’re choosing to focus on is crucial.
My wife and I wrote a book together called “Rekindling the Romance,” and one of the things we say is that when it comes to your mate, the choice of focus is yours.
Are you focusing on your husband’s or wife’s flaws and weaknesses? Or are you choosing to focus on the qualities that made you fall in love with him or her in the first place?
Barbara shares that early in our marriage, she found herself becoming preoccupied and even praying for God to change all of the things I WASN’T doing right, instead of appreciating and thanking God for who I was and what I was doing right. She had to take a step back, adjust the lens of her heart, and re-focus.
One final thought. Remember, only God can change people, and maybe the first thing He wants to change is you and your focus.
I’m Dennis Rainey, and that’s Real, re-focused Family Life.
Date: 7/15/2008 12:00:00 AM
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