{"id":89466,"date":"2026-05-29T19:52:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89466"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:00:35","slug":"89466","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/29\/89466\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix your eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/736x\/bd\/5e\/d5\/bd5ed5d77b6fbb9a7a4554dcb3fc270f.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">What is that one thing that dominates your thoughts, consumes your mind and, ultimately, determines your action(s) and controls your life?<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">How much time do you spend chatting on WhatsApp, scrolling through Facebook, Tik Tok and Instagram feeds for entertainment, connections and products? Are you glued to the television for hours watching soaps\/series or binge-watching reality shows on Netflix? Or are you struggling with work-life balance and allowing work to distract you from meeting your spiritual goals?<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Though social media is not inherently harmful, we must ensure it does not prevent us from engaging in meaningful practices such as prayer and meditation. Prioritizing faith over and above any social media app, distractions, obsessions or fixation is important because the time spent praying and meditating nurtures our spirit in ways that non-spiritual posts, chats and work may not.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">In a world filled with distractions, it is essential to identity those distractions pulling our focus away from God and strategically devise ways to prioritize our relationship with Him.\u00a0\u00a0 Consciously setting aside time for prayer, fasting, worship and immersing ourselves in the Scripture helps to deepen our relationship with Him and to nurture our faith.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">What is that one distraction preventing you from fixing your eyes on Him?<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 What is that one thing that dominates your thoughts, consumes your mind and, ultimately, determines your action(s) and controls your life?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-60-second-motivator"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Fix-your-eyes.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89951,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89466\/revisions\/89951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}