Sturtz Stuff

The book of Proverbs uses the word sloth or sluggard in various passages. For example Proverbs 26:14 states As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed. I was fresh out of Bible College and serving as a youth minister at a church in GA. One evening I got a phone call about one of the teenagers in the youth group. I was asked to head to the local hospital.   The teenage girl that I was asked to see was only 15 years old and had been in a terrible accident.   She was on her way home from a date with her boyfriend. They were traveling down a country dirt road that had a tight curve. As they went around the curve another car, which was being driven too fast for conditions, hit them head on. The Mom and Dad of the girl had received the frightening phone call about their daughter’s dreadful accident. The parent’s were told that their daughter was being taken to the local hospital. The parents quickly gathered themselves together, hopped into their car and began...