Category: Work
-
One Way to Keep from Being Robbed – Proverbs 24
Did you know we can cheat ourselves out of having what we need? This saying draws a picture of a lazy person’s field where his resources don’t grow well and his boundaries aren’t sound. That means animals and people can easily get into his business. Their laziness robs them. “I went past the field of…
-
The Do-Nothing – Proverbs 21
My husband was gone last week for a hunting trip in Eastern Oregon, and I stayed home and did very little. In fact you could say I was downright lazy. I had some reasonable excuses: A head cold and the fact he likes to take a daily nap during his time in the wilderness. Why…
-
The Joy of Work – Proverbs 20
My friend John, an 80-plus-year-old, climbed two rungs up the step-ladder, making me a little nervous. He carefully set the palm-sized apples he found higher up in his tree in the bucket and chuckled at my comments about his safety. I have arthritis to remind me that I’m not a young woman anymore, but being…
-
A Woman’s Toughest Job – Proverbs 14
Building and maintaining healthy family relationships might be the hardest job I’ve ever had, but I’ll never regret taking it on. “The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down” (Proverbs 14:1 NIV). When I approached the scene of an accident near Junction City several years ago,…
-
Too Lazy to Eat Pizza – Proverbs 12
Have you ever been hungry but were too lazy to take a bite of your pizza? Unless you were sick, that would probably never happen. Yet in Proverbs 12 I find references to a person who is just that lazy. “The lazy don’t roast their prey, but hard workers receive precious riches” (Proverbs 12:27 CEB).…
