Mowing Straight Lines

So the other day my dad asked me to mow the yard. Besides the fact that it was a hundred degrees outside I had no problem doing it. Infact I actually enjoy mowing my yard. The neighbors.....not so much, probably because I sing along to my iPod way to loud! The one thing that drives me crazy when I am mowing is when the lines aren't straight. IT DRIVES ME INSANE!!! The downside about this being the thing that bugs me is how unbelievable impossible it is. Lots of factors play into this. The wind, an uneven mowing surface, an itch, or even a sweat bead can throw you off your game. You can imagine my frustration. Until I figured out the key that is. The key to mowing a straight line is not to look only a couple feet in front of the mower, but to instead shift your eyes directly down the line towards the end of the yard. (Warning the first couple of times you try this it may lead to extreme levels of anxiety) but after those intital moments of anxiety it becomes second nature. So as I was relaxing and partially laughing in my head thinking that I had defeated all of the worlds problems a car of friends drove into the neighborhood and laid on the horn. Quickly I looked up and threw up a wave. As I returned to my mowing I was horrified. You guessed it, my line was messed up. I think it is so easy for us like when we are mowing to just tend to look only a couple feet in front of our faith walks because looking far ahead my cause some anixety that we may not always want to burden. We tend to forget that the goal is to mow straight lines, not to only think about mowing them straight, but also like in the mowing we can never get to comfortable in our walks, we always have to keep moving towards the goal and when we do tend to relax and get comfortable we may take our eyes off of the prize. Paul said in 1 Corninthians 9: 24-27 "Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified." When we mow our yards, or walk by faith, or even play scrabble all we can do is remember the goal at hand and put it into action and when we do that we end up with a nice yard and a happy Zane.