Sometimes when supper was finished, our family would remain at the table enjoying being together. Finally Mother would begin clearing the table, a reminder to Daddy that there still were farm chores to be done.
If Daddy didn’t respond quickly, Mother would remind him of the coming darkness. Often he would reply with a statement that came to be a family saying. With a twinkle in his eyes, he would lean back in the cane-bottom chair and joke, “Well, I’ll go. But first I want to enjoy dreadin’ it for a while.”
Isn’t this typical in some of the most important areas of our lives? Don’t we sometimes procrastinate as we “enjoy dreading it for a while?” Many even hesitate in the most important decision of life: finding a meaningful relationship with God. But the Bible reminds us: Behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation. II Corinthians 6:2 (KJV)
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