Taking Back Control: Overcoming Distraction With Faith

• By candidasullivan
• June 30, 2026
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Do you ever struggle with focus? 

Right now, it feels like I have fifteen tabs open in my brain, and they are all screaming, ” Pick me. Open me.” With all the noise, it’s hard to sit still and write. 

It’s also hard for me to stay focused on my life. My brain wants to think about things happening in another state. Things happening with others. The heat. Things that might happen next week, and everything except what God has placed in front of me today. 

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed trying to process things that are beyond my control. 

I have things I want to do. Things I need to do. But those plans are not critical. I let them be optional. 

When I make things optional in my mind, I can skip them. Put them off for another day. But if you tell me that I have to do a certain thing or something bad will happen, I can find the time, energy, or whatever I need to do it. Because it moves from optional to essential. 

I’ve struggled since I got back from vacation. I was in a routine. And when my routine got broken, I’m struggling to find it again. I can continue this cycle of excuses, wasting time, and feeling exhausted, or I can choose to take back my control today. 

Right now, I have the beautiful power of choice. I get to decide what I give my attention to and what I do. I can continue listening to the enemy and allowing him to delay me, or I can pray for the ability to overcome him. Distraction is one of his favorite strategies. He doesn’t always have to stop us completely. He only has to keep us from doing what matters most today.

God knows what I need. He knows the enemy’s sneaky attacks. And He knows how to help me. 

Sometimes, the first step in overcoming is recognizing where I am and praying for guidance and strength. I can lie here while the enemy kicks me, feeling defeated and hopeless, or I can pray for the ability to get back up. 

Sweet friends, it’s not always the big things that defeat us. Sometimes, it’s the little moments. The seemingly unimportant moments. Drifting through our days, until we find ourselves miles from where we want to be. 

Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV

5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

When we get off track, we can either keep wondering, lost and confused, or ask the Lord for directions. Not only will He tell us the way, but He will walk with us.