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Your Best Shot
On different days, you do different jobs with yourhands: wash dishes, shovel snow, do math prob-lems, practice cheerleading routines, clean yourroom—and so much more. Instead of rushing througheach activity, do your very best work. Don’t just doenough to get by.That sounds inspiring, but what if the job is something youdon’t understand? What if it’s a task to do for someone whoirritates you, like your bossy big brother? What if you’repaired for a science project with a rude girl with scraggly hairwho actually wears pink boots in the classroom? You don’twant to go the extra mile. In fact, you’re willing to takean F for the project if the science teacher will letyou off the hook. That isn’t going to happen,so you grit your teeth and get to work withher.Then one day you learn a greatsecret from Colossians 3:23 (NLT):“Work hard and cheerfully at whateveryou do, as though you were working for
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“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.” —Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NIV)
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