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Celebrating Focus

Annelise Lords
3 min readApr 3, 2021

When we lose focus in a world ravaged by crisis, poverty, greed, cruelty, death, hunger, starvation, anxiety, discrimination, etc., and a cellphone is all that we lose; we have a lot to Celebrate.

Spiritual Tree Weekly Prompt ‘Celebration.

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I have been having some personal problems lately that had been affecting my creativity. When I have a problem, my God is the first one I reach out to. I pray, read my bible, then wait for his guidance and instructions.

My country is under curfew and a lockdown because of the crisis our world is experiencing. I walk as often as I can because it is therapeutic. This morning, I grabbed my Samsung Galaxy S9, put it in my bag, and walked to get a few stuff at the market. My last buy was a green plantain to make almond porridge. As I stopped and picked up the plantain, the lady said to me, “your stuff is falling out of your bag.”

I quickly looked down and saw a large slit at the side of my bag close to the bottom. In the crowd, someone used a razor to cut the side of my bag and stole my phone. That phone is my second brain; it holds all of my business and financial transactions. My banking information will be compromised. It is also my camera.

I am a deep thinker, and I often think with my heart. God gave me the wisdom to make the right decisions, so I always have a solution for…

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