Mason Loving sat tall at the long wooden dining table, surrounded by nine men he calls brothers.
Suddenly, something happened that caused him to lower in his chair, as if he was searching for a place to hide.
“I think Mason should take over as chore coordinator,” one of the men said.
It would be the perfect job for Mason, the man said. He’d do it well, and it would be good for him.
The more the men talked, the lower Mason slid into his chair.
“Can I decline?” he asked.
“No one is going to make you do it,” Matthew Griffin, the group leader, answered. “But why wouldn’t you want to take this job?”
“I don’t want to screw it up,” Loving said. “I don’t want to fail.”
One by one, the men assured Loving he wouldn’t fail; they wouldn’t let him. They would train him. They would help him. If he made a mistake, they’d show him what he had done wrong, and the next time he would do it right.
[For more of this story, written by Jason Probst, go to http://www.hutchnews.com/news/...9c-de7d57cda6a4.html]
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