Happy Mother’s Day, Ladies! May you celebrate being a mom, having your mom, or being a woman who nurtures others. I have spiritual moms I appreciate deeply. May you be so blessed and be such a blessing to others. My mother was a diligent woman. She demonstrated the opposite of our proverb this week: “Whoever…
“Everything is just so hard!” Former procrastinators, we felt that way in our old days. Back when we gave in to our natural bent to delay, we often felt behind, overwhelmed, defeated, and sorry for ourselves. “I’d love to host that missionary overnight. But I can’t wash the sheets because I didn’t call the washer…
At dinner, former procrastinators, I heard one man at the table ask another in regard to his situation, “What do you want?” The gentleman answered and the first man asked, “What are you doing about it?” There’s the modern-day wording of this proverb: “The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul…
“Yuk! What is that smell?” Hopefully, former procrastinators, you’ve not had that experience. The smell, it turned out, was chicken I’d failed to cook. Pee-yew! The smell was just one part of the loss. There was the money spent. There was the couple of meals we could’ve had for the week and the freezer. There…
She asked her mom, former procrastinators, “Janie wants to know, why do I have to do school on Saturday?” “You don’t have to do school on Saturday. But when you don’t do the work during the week, you have to do it on Saturday.” What a vivid example of this week’s proverb. “The hand of…
Have you settled by a camp fire, former procrastinators, only to get up and move because the smoke stung your eyes? Have you been bold enough to taste straight vinegar from a spoon? It’s the taste bud equivalent of fingernails across a blackboard! Many years ago, I chose the wrong person for a job. It…
We live in a time and place, former procrastinators, where we can enjoy apples all year, bananas when we want them, bread from a package at our convenience. Thanks to some farming methods and worldwide shipping today, it’s a little harder for some of us to grasp the impact of seasons. The agrarian society in…
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:6-8
. . . you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
Colossians 3:9-10