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Thursday, February 3rd, 2022

My Pleasure

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There’s a difference between living for pleasure and finding pleasure in your work.

My Pleasure

But what is that difference?

It’s My Pleasure

In our unbridled digital age, our kids have become feasted and pleasured into imbecility. We, adults, are largely to blame for allowing it. Don’t get me wrong. I love food and pleasure as much as the next guy. God gets pleasure out of our pleasure. But if we’re living for pleasure rather than for God, even pleasure becomes old.

John D. Rockefeller once said, “I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.” Proverbs 21:17 says, “He who loves pleasure will become poor. He who loves wine and oil will never be rich.”

For our kids to truly enjoy life’s pleasures we need to give them more opportunities to do and complete actual work assignments that require initiative and creativity.

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I am the Founder of Shepherd’s Hill Academy, a Christ-Centered, nature-based, therapeutic boarding school, the Host of License to Parent, and the Author of the book “The Miracles of Shepherd’s Hill:  An Extraordinary Odyssey of Divine Interventions.”  The environment at Shepherd’s Hill Academy is intentionally designed to provide a rich, discipleship-focused atmosphere that promotes physical, emotional, and spiritual health and healing to troubled teenager and their families.  Learn More

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