Attraction vs. distraction; what’s the difference?

Wednesday Word

The pull was on so many levels that made it so difficult to ignore, let alone not give into
it. This had definitely been a birthday celebration to remember.

Thanks for joining us for Wednesday’s Word with Kim-Evinda and Trench Classes
United. As usual, she shares from her heart about a real-life experience with the hope
that it will encourage you in your life’s day to day temptations and struggles.
She was on the dance floor dancing with a couple of her girlfriends from her community
group and she saw him…

He was standing at the bar and dancing, staring at her. She didn’t even think about it
before she motioned over the music and said, “Get out here!”

He came immediately, and they danced, and laughed, and danced and laughed.
She didn’t think anything about it at first, especially after a good look at him and
thinking, “he looks so young!” She told herself she was just having fun doing what she
loved, dancing like no one was watching. But by the third dance, there was no denying
the attraction.

When the band announced a break, she took him back to the table and introduced him
to her friends while swallowing a couple big gulps of water to replenish what she had
lost through sweating . As she sat down, indicating she was taking a break, he told her
he’d come find her after checking on his friends.

Shortly after the band started up again, he did exactly that. They danced just about
every dance after that. The night was nothing less than magical, especially realizing that
what they were both experiencing was being taken in by others as they videotaped
them dancing. It was like an attraction that attracted the attention of everyone close to
the dance floor.

In the days that followed, he was definitely taking up a lot of space in her head and not
paying much rent! And yet, that night had definitely served to remind her of yet more
things that were missing in her last marriage.

It wasn’t until a few days as she was filming for a new promo for her republished book,
The Men in and out of Her Life that a revelation hit her and hit her hard. As she was
re-familiarizing herself with the words on the back of the book, she couldn’t help but
chuckle at God’s sense of humor, especially all these years later, sixty-something and
single…again.

“With the help of her counselor, girlfriends and ‘The Voice’ within her, Lacey
learns the most valuable lesson she could: She didn’t need a someone to be a
somebody; she didn’t need another man in and out of her life to know she was loved.”
It was a reminder that God was with her then and definitely with her now, and she was
learning to recognize that sometimes an attraction is merely a distraction from all things
good that God had for her.

Friend, when life hands you things that attract your attention, can I encourage you to
determine if the attraction is merely a distraction from His will ​for your life?
Love
Kim-Evinda