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I read a story in the L. A. Times a long time ago. A guy goes to the house where he grew up and knocks on the door. Because he hadn’t been there for 20 years, he finds himself getting sentimental. He asks the owners if he can walk through the house, and they let him. While in the attic, he finds an old jacket of his. He puts it on, reaches into the pocket, and pulls out a stub. It’s a receipt from a shoe repair shop. He realizes he had taken a pair of shoes there twenty years ago, and in the midst of the move, he had never picked them up. On a whim he decides to go to the shoe repair shop. Just to be funny, he takes the receipt out and hands it to the guy behind the desk, saying, “Are my shoes ready?” The guy goes back to the workroom for a minute, comes back to the counter, and says, “Come back a week from Thursday.”

That’s the mind of the sluggard; they’re always saying, “A week from Thursday.”

John Ortberg, in his sermon “Intercepting Entropy,” PreachingToday Audio, Issue #295