{"id":316,"date":"2018-08-08T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/08\/08\/parable-of-day-you-have-to-live-here\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T13:26:12","slug":"parable-you-have-to-live-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/parable-you-have-to-live-here","title":{"rendered":"Parable of the Day: You Have to Live Here and Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20170930_bkp504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"681\" data-original-width=\"1027\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was a carpenter \u2014 and a good carpenter he was, indeed \u2014 who liked to put everything off until a later time. As soon as someone asked him to make something, he would answer with, \u201cOkay, I\u2019ll do it tomorrow!\u201d When he was young, his fellow villagers used to urge him to get married but he would always reply, \u201cOf course, I will do so\u2026 tomorrow!\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He always had a lot to do so he kept repeating, \u201cOf course, I\u2019ll do that tomorrow! Tomorrow!\u201d Sometimes he did what he had promised to do, sometimes not, but he wasn\u2019t upset anyway. One morning, someone placed an order with him. Our carpenter replied with his usual, \u201cOK, I\u2019ll do that tomorrow!\u201d But the client exclaimed, \u201cWhat do you mean? You\u2019re old now, aren\u2019t you? What if you die and don\u2019t fulfill my order?\u201d The carpenter was startled, \u201cHm, that\u2019s right. How old am I?\u201d He paused to count his age and\u2026 gasped in bewilderment, \u201cOh! I\u2019m sixty! Where has my whole life gone?\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An elderly monk said, \u201cThere is no tomorrow in the spiritual life. You\u2019ve got to rescue your soul NOW!\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"right\"><em>Prepared by the Catalog of Good Deeds<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a carpenter \u2014 and a good carpenter he was, indeed \u2014 who liked to put everything off until a later time. 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