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Healthy living blog VI

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Thank you for giving me your attention for the 90 seconds it will take you to read this paragraph. 90 seconds is quite a lot of attention but where your attention is, there your heart and treasure lie. Like me you may have already given attention to prayer this morning. Like me you’ll have folk to attend to as the hours roll on, attention to wives and husbands, children, parents, colleagues, friends and so on. To give attention to someone, God or man, is nothing passive but active, a work in fact, a work of concentration, of giving and receiving. What I’m saying to you might profit your ongoing reflection today. It is voiced from what I have received myself in living my life up to this day. Giving attention is demanding. It requires actively laying aside distractions to be fully in the present moment. If you’re capable of giving attention to me this morning it augurs well for your giving attention to the tasks or people ahead. In living my life today I want to see and attend to every n