By Nancy Ward
”Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles,” (Matthew 5:41).
Your son comes home from his first day of Early Childhood all excited,
“Guess what, Mommy, we get to go on all the field trips together! Every
week!”
“Why is that?”
“Because we have a station wagon!” Blam! There goes your writing time.
“You’re the only one I can count on to do this for me.” Blam! Another unwelcome commitment busting your schedule.
Your husband calls you from work worried about
Walter, a contract employee. He injured his back, not while on duty on
the survey ship, but off duty in a jeep accident. He’s coming home from
the hospital and
he needs a place to heal until the insurance approves an apartment. His
wife concurs that I can take better care of him than she can in
England. BLAM!
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