“Be
sure to take time to stop and smell the roses,” Dad reminded me. He thinks I
work too hard and don’t take enough time for myself.
Maybe
he’s right. I have 28 rose bushes in my yard, but I truly don’t know which are
fragrant and which aren’t. When I water the roses, I pull the weeds around them
while thinking about how I’m going to manage to get all my other to-do’s done.
Rose-sniffing
doesn’t come naturally to overachievers like me. We tend to judge the value of
an activity by the following criteria: Does
this activity accomplish anything? What will I have to show for it to prove
that it isn’t a waste of time?
Somewhere
along the line, I must have bought into the lie that achievement equals
self-worth, for why else would I feel guilty for taking a few moments out of my
schedule to linger over a rose?
Good
question.
“I came that they may have and enjoy life,
and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).” –Words of Jesus, JOHN
10:10
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