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School's Out!

Sunday, 01 June 2008 11:02 |

“School is out at last,” goes an old Ry Cooder song. “I’m so glad I passed . . . I can stay out late with my buddies, I can do the things that I want to do, cause all my cares are through!” For those of us over 40, or maybe 50, these lyrics probably bring back memories of long lazy summers of blessed freedom from the classroom. Even if we had a summer job, the evenings were ours, and days off were days off, with the bonus of a little money to

spend.

That’s not quite the way it is today. In many communities, summertime—any free time—is considered mainly an opportunity for enrichment. Learn another language or a new instrument, go to computer camp, improve your soccer skills, double up on the piano lessons or ballet classes.

And it’s not just young people. For all of us, it used to take discipline and determination to do the work we needed to do. Now it takes discipline and determination to stop working—to stop worrying that we need to be constantly improving ourselves, accomplishing something, gaining an advantage, or just plain

getting something done.

But even God rested on the 7th day—after putting together the entire Creation! Take a lesson from that and take a day off. If you must feel guilty, try feeling guilty about working too much!

School is out!