Consider a story from the February 1998 edition of Reader’s Digest, which tells about a couple who “took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51.
John Piper, in his book Don’t Waste Your Life, shares this story: That is a picture of what we’re asking for when we desire a life of ease. It could be compared to the strange fish that live in the complete darkness of the deepest parts of the ocean, who never come in contact with a hard object their entire lives, and whose flesh has become completely translucent. But such a life would be as pale and flabby as the body of a man who had never moved and never seen the sun. This world would have you think that your best life would be a life in which you were able to completely avoid responsibility and effort.
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