Shortcuts are neither good nor bad. It is their application that makes them either.
Shortcuts are designed to save time, so that the saved time can be used to add value to another process.
To properly utilize a shortcut, you must first understand the right way.
Where a shortcut is used as a tool to avoid the consequences of self-indiscipline, you lose sight of the end.
Where a shortcut is used as a tool to reward deep understanding, you bring the end into view.
– Osasu Oviawe
John 15:12-15
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Homily:
Nowhere is love more evident than in a family.
The man is expected to lay down his life to protect his family – toil for subsistence.
The woman literally lays down her life to grow her family – child birth.
The child is expected to lay down his/her life to preserve the family – resist the enemy.
“…there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” – Proverbs 18:24
There are friends that toil with us.
There are friends that birth our dreams with us.
There are friends that resist the enemy with us.
Prioritize such friendships. Be such a friend.
