Extensions and Reflections

Extensions Lesson 30

Read the following story and respond on the lines below how this story can be related to keeping ourselves fit in all areas of life.

You are walking through the woods one day and come upon a lumberjack who's furiously working at cutting fallen trees into logs. You notice that he's having a very difficult time of it. It seems to you that the chain on his chainsaw has become so dull that the saw barely cuts at all.
You ask him why he doesn't sharpen his chain. He replies, "I've got to get these logs cut. I can't take the time to sharpen my saw."
The man didn't realize that if he'd just taken a few minutes to sharpen his tool, cutting through the tree trunks would have required much less of his time and energy.

We're so caught up in all the things we need to do in life that we don't stress the things that we actually have to do in order to do the things that we think are important. If he just took a little time sharpening his saw, or if Kyra just slept a little more and just relaxed a bit, then they would both find it easier to get their tasks done. (Oooops, I think this is for Jamie, Nancy, Laurie and me...)

Reflections
What does your family do to renew and refresh the health of your relationships? Plan an outing or a family fun night.

Oh, within the family, I don't think we need any work on that. We have a movie night every Friday, the schedule is planned out. First, I go back to my old school and my parents go to the library or think of where we want to go. Then at about 5 or 6 o'clock, they pick me up to go out for dinner, or we cook something special, and we either watch a movie online or rent it. But usually we have to vote on movies, and we promise to watch the others next week, but there's so many in the list right now that I don't know if we'll be able to get through all of them. You can see where I get my passion for movies.