#Focus on the Direction You Intend to Go! #Forward #Upward #Onward #Forwards #Upwards #Onwards (not #Backwards #Backward nor #Downwards #Downward nor ... #Offward #Offwards? Why Not 'Offward'?) #Ward #Wards

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I just finished a post about "Guilt," ended it by listing a few of the feelings I was feeling along with it, and started a big-long description of 'why I'm feeling those feelings'; but erased that big long description. I said I did it because I was "afraid," but ... What was I afraid of?

In a word, Judgement. I was afraid that–since I was going on-&-on about 'some so-far hopeless situation'–you would think I were obsessed with it—oh, it's an important factor in people's lives–one I wish were a factor in my life–but it's not the only thing I ever think about (and–though I would consider 'the situation's resolution' in every spare moment of every day–there are other matters that need my attention).

So I need to take my focus off 'the way things always seem to go' in order to put it on 'how I'll make them go from this moment onward, upward, forward!' Like Concepts of Faith-preachers Charles & Annette Capps remind us, 'You don't heat the house by "telling the thermostat how cold the house is (or how the house got so cold)!"' or 'You don't get to the upper floors by "telling the elevator 'which floor you're on now!'"'

'Those words' (below hyperlinked to my post on 'what Guilt is good-for') are built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...
The word “Focus” is built on Bedrock Foundations beneath “Hearth, Fireplace (Home, Family)” (|Point of Convergence (Target in (the Burning-|Point (where all the Light is Focused) of) a Lens), Center of |Activity or -Energy).
The suffix “-ward (-wards)” is built on “to |Turn-, |Bend towards” (Forward, Forwards expresses a direction viewed in contrast with other directions; no real difference (except artistically) between Upward & Upwards, nor for Toward & Towards; Onwards is always an adverb, while Onward may also be an adjective'
(No big difference between Backward & Backwards, except the former is the American form of the adverb (the latter being the British); also no difference between Downwards & Downward, except the British use the former as an adverb & -the latter as an adjective; the only difference between Offward & Offwards is that Offwards is used less commonly). 




Or maybe I'm looking at it wrong—that's one reason
 Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
 alone":  "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows
 him why he's not"—Won't you show me
 if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?

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