Sunday night I went in to kiss my youngest son, Isaiah, goodnight and to say our prayers. After he had prayed I lay beside him and began to ask him about his weekend.
"Did you get married," I asked, "or get a job?"
"No," the eight year old disgustedly replied.
"Well, when are you going to get a job?" I continued, "When are you going to start paying your own way?"
"Dad, you don't even have a job," he replied with even more disgust.
"I have a job," I responded with equal disgust.
"What is your job?
"I work at the church?"
"That preaching thing," he asked with a certain sound of shock, "they pay you for that?!"
At this I realized how glad I am that my son is not on the church leadership council come payroll decision time.
When I told Andrea of the experience she jumped into supportive wife mode, "It is because you made it all look so natural and easy." I could tell by the look on her face and tone of her voice that I needed to be thankful that she was not on leadership council as well.
Here I Dwell,
Rick
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Trash Time
Andrea has bags of books , picture frames, and other assumed abandoned items in our garage. She is going to have a garage sale. Bags of discarded items on the garage floor or near the trash always scare me. Shortly after Andrea and I were married I began going through the trash each day before going in the house after I got home from work. I would have to save items that Andrea had deemed unnecessary in the Anthony household. I am a keeper, Andrea is a throwitallouter.
As I was secretly going through the most recent stack of soon to be rejected Anthony heirlooms I came across a stack of discipleship books. My first thought was that I had to save these never used books. The reason....I had written a recommendation on the back cover of each of the books. The publisher I was writing for at the time had asked me to write the rec and being flattered at the offered I agreed. I am not sure that I ever actually read the books but I made them sound good on the cover. I think the publisher just sent me an overview and I based my words on this summary. Ironically, this same publisher had just rejected a proposal I had made for a discipleship series.
So, all these years later we still have this stack of books which have never been used. They have never assisted anyone in their walk with Christ, they have just sat on our shelf or in our garage. They have made it through at least one house move and yet never used, never opened. They have been saved because they have my name on the back cover. They have been kept, not for what is inside, but for my ego.
It is time we get rid of them, Andrea will be so proud.
Here I Dwell,
Rick
As I was secretly going through the most recent stack of soon to be rejected Anthony heirlooms I came across a stack of discipleship books. My first thought was that I had to save these never used books. The reason....I had written a recommendation on the back cover of each of the books. The publisher I was writing for at the time had asked me to write the rec and being flattered at the offered I agreed. I am not sure that I ever actually read the books but I made them sound good on the cover. I think the publisher just sent me an overview and I based my words on this summary. Ironically, this same publisher had just rejected a proposal I had made for a discipleship series.
So, all these years later we still have this stack of books which have never been used. They have never assisted anyone in their walk with Christ, they have just sat on our shelf or in our garage. They have made it through at least one house move and yet never used, never opened. They have been saved because they have my name on the back cover. They have been kept, not for what is inside, but for my ego.
It is time we get rid of them, Andrea will be so proud.
Here I Dwell,
Rick
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