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January 25, 2011
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No ambition at 29

Dear Pastor,

Ambition starts in the home. The parent or guardian should train children, at an early age, how to keep their room tidy. They must teach them how to earn and spend their money by doing chores. By doing this, when they become older they will learn how to be responsible.

I have a nephew in Jamaica. My mother always shields him from work at home. Today he is 29, has no job and five children. He is always begging.

K.M.,

Dear K.M.,

I suppose your cousin is always well dressed. He is getting from begging and perhaps the women with whom he has the children are taking care of him. Perhaps they don't have any ambition either. Your mother did not allow this young man to do anything in the house, neither did she try to explain that he ought to be ambitious. And that one learns this virtue early in life.

Henry Wadsworth Long-fellow wrote "Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions".

Pastor

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