Suzy Q
December 29th, 2007, 09:31 PM
PARKING LOT LESSONS
Proverbs 6:9-11
“How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, and your need like an armed man.”
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As I visited my local grocery store, I noticed some interesting details by observing the parking lot. The first thing that caught my attention was the location of cars. The majority was parked close to the building. I even noticed that people who were not handicapped parked in some of the handicapped spaces.
Next I noted the numerous amount of shopping carts scattered everywhere, a real nuisance and possible hazard. Yet cart returns were conveniently placed throughout the parking area, some just three or four feet from the abandoned carts. What did all this tell me about the shoppers inside the store and those who had previously been there?
They are lazy individuals, in fact so lazy they would steal the right to park in a handicap spot. So lazy they won’t walk three feet to place their cart in a cart return and secure it. Their ignorance blinds them from realizing the many years they are shaving off their lives by avoiding the extra activity it takes to park farther away and walk, or taking extra steps to place their cart in a cart return stall. And if you followed them into the store to observe their purchases, it would correspond with the sedentary lives they live.
Combine their junk food diet with a couch potato lifestyle, and you have a heart attack in the making. The future looks bleak for such an individual. If they don’t die suddenly, they will survive to suffer terribly, and have their chest split open like a slab of beef in a procedure we call open-heart surgery. The quality of their life will never be the same and they will always live in fear of another heart attack.
This is not God’s best for His children. But when we decide to thumb our noses at His laws of health, we reap what we sow.
Next time you go shopping, remember the words of Proverbs 6. Any form of laziness is sin! So push those carts! Return them to their proper place. Park as far away from the building as possible and let your feet do the extra walking. You will be adding rather than subtracting years from your life!
Cheryll Mayberry-Smith
Proverbs 6:9-11
“How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, and your need like an armed man.”
*********************************************
As I visited my local grocery store, I noticed some interesting details by observing the parking lot. The first thing that caught my attention was the location of cars. The majority was parked close to the building. I even noticed that people who were not handicapped parked in some of the handicapped spaces.
Next I noted the numerous amount of shopping carts scattered everywhere, a real nuisance and possible hazard. Yet cart returns were conveniently placed throughout the parking area, some just three or four feet from the abandoned carts. What did all this tell me about the shoppers inside the store and those who had previously been there?
They are lazy individuals, in fact so lazy they would steal the right to park in a handicap spot. So lazy they won’t walk three feet to place their cart in a cart return and secure it. Their ignorance blinds them from realizing the many years they are shaving off their lives by avoiding the extra activity it takes to park farther away and walk, or taking extra steps to place their cart in a cart return stall. And if you followed them into the store to observe their purchases, it would correspond with the sedentary lives they live.
Combine their junk food diet with a couch potato lifestyle, and you have a heart attack in the making. The future looks bleak for such an individual. If they don’t die suddenly, they will survive to suffer terribly, and have their chest split open like a slab of beef in a procedure we call open-heart surgery. The quality of their life will never be the same and they will always live in fear of another heart attack.
This is not God’s best for His children. But when we decide to thumb our noses at His laws of health, we reap what we sow.
Next time you go shopping, remember the words of Proverbs 6. Any form of laziness is sin! So push those carts! Return them to their proper place. Park as far away from the building as possible and let your feet do the extra walking. You will be adding rather than subtracting years from your life!
Cheryll Mayberry-Smith