Home School Heartbeat Radio Program
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Your child may not believe you now when you tell him that a difficult task is your gift to him—but he will thank you later, when he reaps the benefits of diligence. Today on Home School Heartbeat, host Mike Farris talks about how his father taught him to overcome laziness and to work hard. Mike Farris: Here’s a confession: I am a lazy person by nature, but something happened to me along the way to adulthood that allowed me to overcome my natural tendency toward laziness. That “something” was my father. He taught me to work, whether I liked it or not. I developed some of my best argumentative skills trying to talk my dad out of some work projects he wanted me to do. But I was rarely successful in convincing him. I was forced to mow the lawn, paint the house, re-roof our house, dig ditches for our irrigation system, and dig up some awful stuff in the yard called “quack grass.” I look back today and believe that my father did me an enormous amount of good by forcing me to work and work hard. My natural tendency toward laziness was eventually overcome by my father’s diligence. I still have a heart that is easily tempted by laziness. But as a child I was trained up in the way I should go, and now that I am old, I have a very hard time departing from my training and returning to my natural state. I’m Mike Farris.
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