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QUALITY TIME
Wearing a fresh shine on his shoes, a suit his wife
gave him on graduation day and a determined look on his face, Brian stood
outside his new office. It wasn't the corner office, but it looked pretty
good to him. The smell of new leather from his chair and the warm glow
of sunshine streaming through the window greeted him as he positioned his
alligator briefcase on the corner of his mahogany desk.
Click, click. Brian opened his briefcase and took
out three items—a hammer, a nail and his college degree. "hello, Brian."
Mr. Pensky, Brian's new boss said as he extended his right hand, "Welcome
to Acme Widget, Inc." Still holding the hammer, Brian reached out to shake
his employer's hand. "Excuse me, sir," Brian said, noticing his mistake.
He sat the hammer on his desk, shook Mr. Pensky's hand and said, "It's
good to be here sir."
Mr. Pensky smiled, and turned to leave. As he was
walking out of the room he said, "We'll be having a staff meeting at 10:00
this morning in the conference room, I'll introduce you to everybody then."
"I'm sorry, sir, but that won't work for me." Mr.
Pensky spun, reentered the room and stood motionless in his grey flannel
suit. "What do you mean that won't work for you?"
"We'll," Brian explained, "I'm planning on leaving
the office around 9:30 this morning to go fishing with some friends. You
know what they say, 'it isn't the quantity, but the quality of time that
matters.' I won't be spending much time in the office while I'm working
for you, but I assure you the time I spend will be high quality."
It takes more than "Quality time" to keep a job, and
it takes more than "Quality time" to raise a family. It takes real time—the
combination of quality and quantity.
-- Illustration by Jim L. Wilson
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QUALITY TIME
In an article in "Focus on the Family Magazine," David
Stipech answered the age old question, "Isn't it quality time that counts."
He wrote, "Not even close. It is the little moments, the unplanned, cute
things they say or do, that weaves our kids' lives into the fabric of our
own."
—Focus on the Family, June 2000, p. 21 Illustration
by Jim L. Wilson
Children are a gift from God. How we raise them is
our gift to God.
QUALITY TIME
In Ten Minutes from Normal, Karen Hughes, former counselor
to President George W. Bush writes, “The years with my children have taught
me there is no such thing as quality time; there is only time, and if you
spend enough of it, some of it turns out to be quality.”
--Ten Minutes from Normal - Kindle Loc. 6685-87 Illustration
by Jim L. Wilson
Isaiah 49:15 (HCSB) “Can a woman forget her
nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these
forget, yet I will not forget you.”
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