Y'all,
I was preparing myself for the Phase
1 testing put down on http://www.ask.com on Sharpen
Axe. It came acroos a cool devition.
Sharpen Your Axe
A young man approached the foreman of a logging crew and asked for a
job.
"That depends," replied the foreman. "Let's see you fell this tree."
The young man stepped forward, and skillfully felled a great tree.
Impressed, the foreman exclaimed, "You can start Monday."
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday rolled by -- and Thursday
afternoon the foreman approached the young man and said, "You can pick
up your paycheck on the way out today."
Startled, the young man replied, "I thought you paid on Friday."
"Normally we do," said the foreman. "But we're letting you go today
because you've fallen behind. Our daily felling charts show that you've
dropped from first place on Monday to last place today."
"But I'm a hard worker," the young man objected. "I arrive first, leave last,
and even have worked through my coffee breaks!"
The foreman, sensing the young man's integrity, thought for a minute and
then asked, "Have you been sharpening your ax?"
The young man replied, "No sir, I've been working too hard to take time for
that!"
Our lives are like that. We sometimes get so busy that we don't take time to
"sharpen the ax." In today's world, it seems that everyone is busier than
ever, but less happy than ever. Why is that? Could it be that we have
forgotten how to stay sharp?
There's nothing wrong with activity and hard work. But God doesn't want
us to get so busy that we neglect the truly important things in life, like taking
time to pray, to read and study Scripture, or to listen to "the still small voice
of God." We all need time to relax, to think and meditate, to learn and
grow. If we don't take time to sharpen the axe, we will become dull and
lose our effectiveness.
---
John Evans
Maryville AG
" " Royal Rangers
Opost 7th
IL >hael Paul Johnson aka Soaring Golden Eagle
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