By Jackie Ricks As a parent and a former teacher, I considered obedience very important. However, I remember as a child growing up, I often didn’t obey when my parents asked me to do something. Oh, I didn’t willfully not do what they asked. What I did was delay my obedience, often because I was busy reading a book I thought I couldn’t put down — just one more page, one more chapter. I’m almost done; it won’t hurt to finish this first. The work will still be there. Those were my ...