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    The document provides an analogy for staying on course in life. It compares keeping focused on one's goals to how a spacecraft stays on course to the moon despite forces pulling it off target. With a built-in computer continually making corrections, the spacecraft homes in on its purpose and goal of reaching the moon. Similarly, if one's eye is focused on their goal and they have a singleness of purpose, nothing will stop them from achieving what they are aiming for, just as God can keep a person on course through life by following His guidance.

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    The document provides an analogy for staying on course in life. It compares keeping focused on one's goals to how a spacecraft stays on course to the moon despite forces pulling it off target. With a built-in computer continually making corrections, the spacecraft homes in on its purpose and goal of reaching the moon. Similarly, if one's eye is focused on their goal and they have a singleness of purpose, nothing will stop them from achieving what they are aiming for, just as God can keep a person on course through life by following His guidance.

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    The document provides an analogy for staying on course in life. It compares keeping focused on one's goals to how a spacecraft stays on course to the moon despite forces pulling it off target. With a built-in computer continually making corrections, the spacecraft homes in on its purpose and goal of reaching the moon. Similarly, if one's eye is focused on their goal and they have a singleness of purpose, nothing will stop them from achieving what they are aiming for, just as God can keep a person on course through life by following His guidance.

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    REFLECTIONS

    On Course
    Excerpts of the article by Sandy Snavely (from
    More Stories for the Heart, compiled by Alice Gray)

    M y husband Bud and


    I love to sail. When the
    water is calm and the wind is
    stable, sailing is a profoundly
    thud, the danger of beating a
    hole into the fiberglass in-
    creased.
    Bud then did the most fright-
    called to obey. It went against all
    my instincts, but as I heeded
    Bud’s command, I was able to
    get us back on course. Bud fas-
    rich experience. Yet there are ening thing I’ve ever seen him do. tened the anchor into its holder,
    times when the water turns evil With neither a life jacket nor a life- and we were once again headed
    and the wind breathes terror line, he made his way forward to in the right direction.
    through our veins like an invis- the point of the bow, leaving me We both learned a valuable
    ible enemy. in the cockpit to man the tiller as lesson that afternoon: Danger
    One day, a sea condition ap- he retrieved the anchor. lurks around every corner, and
    propriately known as a Wave after angry wave we can be distracted from our
    “widowmaker” interrupted our crashed over him. Steadying my real goals, tempted to try to
    peaceful voyage. Five- to six- focus on Bud, I immediately be- change the rules to solve what
    foot waves slammed against us, gan to plan what I would do to seem to be life’s more immedi-
    one right after the other, and we rescue him if indeed he went ate crises.
    steadied ourselves for a bumpy overboard. But there are sound principles
    ride. The sound of my husband’s designed to bring us safely to our
    Suddenly, Bud heard a sound voice shouting to me through the destination, if we are willing to
    that appeared to be coming from storm broke the hold fear had on trust them and not be swayed off
    the bow. Straining to see forward me: “Get back on course! Point course by sudden fears. We must
    through the water that the wind her toward the marker!” be determined to study the
    whipped around us, he discov- Prying my focus off of my charts, follow the rules, and
    ered that our anchor had be- husband and setting my sights steady the course, or we will end
    come dislodged and was bang- back to the marker was the most up over our heads in deep water
    ing against our hull. With each difficult order I have ever been when life’s storms hit.

    A spacecraft en route to

    H
    the moon is off course
    90 percent of the time. It’s pulled ow do you know what course to take? How can you tell
    back by the earth’s gravity. It’s if you’re getting off course, or if your path is veering off
    continually drawn to one side or one way or another from the best way to go? Well, God’s teaching
    the other by other forces. But it in the Bible gives the best advice I know of for keeping your life
    has a built-in computer that has on course. It talks about what will make you happy—and that is
    a singleness of purpose that God’s plan for you.
    homes in on the moon. The com- You don’t know God’s plan for your life? Then ask Him, and He
    puter is making continual correc- will show it to you. It all starts with letting Jesus come into your
    tions to keep the spacecraft on heart, letting Him speak to you and show you His ways of love
    target with its purpose and goal. and life. Then you’ll be aimed in the right direction, and God can
    Lives are like that. If your eye is keep you on course. He’ll be your Helmsman, and as long as you
    on your goal, if you have a single- follow Him, your course will be guided and protected, full of love
    ness of purpose, nothing will and fulfillment—and it will take you to Heaven in the end!—
    stop you getting to where you are David Brandt Berg
    going.—Dick Innes (from How to
    Mend a Broken Heart)

    R127 GP Faith, perseverance, God’s plan

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