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On Working Too Hard

A perverse thought as I did battle on the road this morning. If wasting time is a sin against poverty, working too hard is a sin against common-sense. Not many people think of folly as a sin, but that is what Jesus called it. Perhaps we should place it among the sins of omission, and they are not much fun, are they? Whoever thought to himself/herself, "Oh bliss, oh joy, oh rapture! Today I won't drive carefully/settle my milk bill/say my prayers." No, we enjoy the sins of commission, but the sins of omission leave us cold. The trouble with working too hard is that it might do exactly that: leave us cold.