{"id":24036,"date":"2026-03-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=24036"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:06:22","slug":"keep-your-eyes-on-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=24036","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Eyes on the Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I heard the cutest dad story.
A father wanted to help his 7-year-old son with baseball. He\u2019d taken him to practice, thrown pitches, done all the right things –but he admitted, \u201cI don\u2019t really know what to tell him!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So he asked a friend. The answer?
\u201cHe\u2019s seven. Just tell him one thing — WATCH THE BALL!\u201d That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, that one simple instruction works for just about every sport when you\u2019re seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I wish I could say I mastered that concept myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years ago, my sister-in-law and I took golf lessons. We swung with confidence — and missed the ball completely. Or we\u2019d hit it and it would roll about three feet. The instructor kept saying, \u201cKeep your eyes on the ball!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We tried. We really did.
But between laughing and talking, we decided golf might not be our calling. I think our instructor agreed with us! Sigh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I saw a little T-ball player take that advice very literally. When the coach said, \u201cKeep your eye on the ball,\u201d the little guy leaned down and put his eye right on it! Precious.
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And honestly — not too far off from how we sometimes respond to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hear what we\u2019re supposed to do, but distractions pull us in every direction — worries, frustrations, responsibilities, all competing for our attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I can just picture our Heavenly Father gently taking our face in His hands and saying,
\u201cLook at Me.
Focus on Me.
Keep your eyes on Me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hebrews 12:2 reminds us:
\u201cFixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because when our focus drifts, our peace drifts right along with it.
But when we keep our eyes on Him?
Everything changes.
The noise quiets.
The worries soften.
And our steps steady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So today, let\u2019s keep it simple. Just like a 7-year-old learning the game — keeping our eyes on the most important thing — actually, the most important One — that’s Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I heard the cutest dad story.A father wanted to help his 7-year-old son with baseball. He\u2019d taken him to practice, thrown pitches, done all the right things –but he admitted, \u201cI don\u2019t really know what to tell him!\u201d So he asked a friend. The answer?\u201cHe\u2019s seven. Just tell him one thing — WATCH THE BALL!\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4719,1210,23226,1274,28550,33087,3686,10508,40,2497,12026,6186],"class_list":["post-24036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-blog","tag-eyes-on-the-ball","tag-fathers-eyes","tag-finisher","tag-fixing-our-eyes","tag-focus","tag-golf-lessons","tag-inspiration","tag-look","tag-noise","tag-watch-the-ball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24039,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24036\/revisions\/24039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}