"I don't smoke and never have, but many of my relatives did. Perhaps that is why I can remember so many old cigarette commercials. I wanted to see how they were tricked in to burning up their money.
"Do you remember the Pall Mall ad? As I recall it went something like this: 'Over, under, around, and through, Pall Mall travels pleasure to you.'
"Over, under, around, and through. That actually has application to workaholics, who seemingly always have too many responsibilities. There is always another job to do, another call to make, or another job to redo better.
"If anyone in Scripture looked like a workaholic, it was the apostle Paul....Yet it was the apostle Paul who wrote, 'One thing I do.'
"Today we say, 'These twenty things I dabble in.' Remember the phrase 'Jack of all trades, master of none.' I found that to be a misquote from a phrase of early American history: 'Jack of all trades, master of one.'"
adapted from: Time Out. Daily Devotions for Workaholics by Gary E. Hurst, Mike Kachura, and Larry D. Sides, February 11
