Just Play! by Pablo Giacopelli
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By Pablo Giacopelli
When we choose to live a life where controlling and watching everything we say and do is king, the impact of our involvement is automatically limited as our heart and mind begin to fight between them for the supremacy of our beings. Consider an archer. If he is free to shoot his arrows anywhere he wants he will have the whole of his talent (heart) available to him. He will have no future results in his mind and will therefore almost always hit whatever he desires. Now take the same archer and ask him to hit the apple above your head and you immediately put him in a space where the potential of being divided is available to him.
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When we choose to live a life where controlling and watching everything we say and do is king, the impact of our involvement is automatically limited as our heart and mind begin to fight between them for the supremacy of our beings.
Consider an archer. If he is free to shoot his arrows anywhere he wants he will have the whole of his talent (heart) available to him. He will have no future results in his mind and will therefore almost always hit whatever he desires. Now take the same archer and ask him to hit the apple above your head and you immediately put him in a space where the potential of being divided is available to him. If he does not understand the importance of remaining within his heart and just shooting, despite the pressure outside of him, half of him will focus on the apple and the other will focus on the consequences he will have to face in the future if he misses or if he makes it.
This approach will mean that he no longer has the whole of his talent (heart) available to him and will therefore more than likely miss. The only way this archer, and us, will have the whole of our talent (heart) available to us is if we remain present and live a life that is not judged by results, but instead one that enjoys the process moment by moment, and understands that the results ultimately belong to God.
Today we are living in a World where it is impossible to hedge our bets and predict what will or will not happen in the future. Covid-19, political unrest, and a restricted life to name a few continue to create an environment where the only certain thing around is the Kingdom of God within our hearts. This is why more than ever I firmly believe that God is encouraging all of us at this time to focus less on winning and losing are more on just playing out of the fullness of our hearts.
Those of us that choose the latter of these two will find that when we stop trying to win it is the moment we actually start winning.
Pablo Giacopelli
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"God is on my side" I heard someone say the other day as they shared about a dispute they were having with someone else. As I sat there listening to this person give me all the details about why they thought God was on their side and not on the other party's side I began to wonder. So many of us are so quick to say that God must be on our side because of what we have read and others have told us. Clearly when it comes to the way he feels towards us as our father this is indisputable – He always has and always will be on our side. However, can this be also said when we fight and argue with each other about what after all often only amounts to egotistical pettiness?
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I have driven on many third world countries in my time. South Africa is one of these which I happen to often visit. Without fault every time I have been in a car at some stage of my visit, I have had to experience the impact that the regular power cuts have on the traffic signals in this nation. I remember last time I was there when once again while having to endure along with everyone else another blackout, I noticed something that I had never seen before when I came to a non-working traffic light. There is never an accident when the lights are not working whereas when they are working correctly there are plenty. How can this be? Well here is what my heart showed me.
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In the world we live in today where so many of us are constantly goal setting, have you ever taken the time to wonder what kind of goals guys like Moses, David, and Joseph set? You hear it all over the place. I certainly did when I worked at the high end of professional sports. "You have to set your goals and go out there and make things happen for yourself," they said. "Those who wait never get anywhere. You can't stand still unless you want to become another statistic," they added. While I see what many are trying to communicate through the above statements I also realize today how limiting they can be to our lives. You see all of these sayings begin with us and very much depend on what we are able to muster up and accomplish.
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