Photo by Larry Mohr
I spent three weeks with my mom in the middle of the summer, but I took my work with me. “Have laptop, will write” and all that. When I’m wrapped up in a story, I can get pretty driven.
One evening my mother said,
“You should quit. You’ve been working all day.”
She was right on both counts. I put in a lot of hours that day, cranked out a lot of words. It was time to stop.
Sometimes we depend on other people who have our best interests at heart to tell us what we need to hear. We need people in our lives we can trust to do this for us.
I was a kid when I got told I was selfish. Naturally I thought, “No I’m not!” But when I took stock, I needed to change. These days I’m aware that as time passes God fills me with more and more of His generous spirit. No one wants to be known for their badnesses any more than they want to be called a fool. If we don’t heed sound advice, Proverbs tells us that’s what we are.