{"id":3190,"date":"2020-01-05T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realbiblestudy.com\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2020-01-05T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T17:22:21","slug":"3190","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=3190","title":{"rendered":"Sharpen your focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<fb:like href='https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=3190' send='true' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like><p><strong>Proverbs and Quotations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.&#8221; Andrew Bonar<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Comment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I share this quotation at the beginning of this new year and decade to alert us all of the danger of being too distracted from important things by things less important.<\/p>\n<p>I learned early in my teaching career and in my participation in church activities that it is possible to spread myself too thin. I decided on a simple solution to reduce this problem: commit to doing the things I can do that others usually cannot, and let others do the things they can do rather than having me do them.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I am retired from teaching, the problem persists! I must prioritize and focus on the most important things to do and the most important things to learn.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=3190' send='true' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like><span class=\"fb_share\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=3190\" layout=\"box_count\"><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs and Quotations &#8220;One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=3190\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[749,4819],"tags":[4823,4824],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-issues","category-proverbs-and-quotations","tag-andrew-bonar","tag-narrow-your-focus-to-what-is-most-important"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}