We need to teach our children that they shouldn’t be ‘slothful’

Several years ago, I had to make a trip back to the country of Panama. I had several agendas for this trip. One was to take my wife on a mini-vacation, and another was to reconnect with some of our contacts. I especially wanted to go back into the rain forest to the village of San Antonio. The cross I carried up Mount Kilimanjaro came out of this area, and the people gave me a special send-off and prayed for me as I made the journey. I had not yet had a chance to report back to them about the climb, so I made them a shadow box with a picture and a piece of the cross inside. The story of the cross and mountain moved them, and when I presented them with the shadow box, their eyes welled with tears.