Me again!
Since hard times hit in the summer, I have had to work at a second job. For the last month I have been cleaning toilets at night on the weekends. I now have a chance to switch to a night auditor position and get up to forty hours. This would be a great boon to my family. I hope I am in your prayers.
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The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.
Thanks. I am not sure what great thing I am accomplishing, but....
:-)
In ninth grade English class we had to spend a few weeks on journalism. One of our projects was interviewing (with at least 8 questions) three people on the subject "What Makes A Great Man". I interviewed a neighbor, a vet of Korea and Vietnam. I assumed that he would talk about fellow vets or historic military heroes, and he didn't disappoint. But when I asked who he thought was the greatest man he ever knew, he said his father: "He took any job he could find to feed us during the depression."
My great-grandfather was a tinsmith. During the depression, because he couldn't afford Christmas and birthday gifts for his kids, he made toys in his spare time out of the tin scraps. I have some of the trucks and trailers. Some are actually made out of tin cans, with tin jar lids as wheels.
A friend of the family served in Iraq. His wife went on a spending spree in a fit of depression while he was there, placing the family in deep debt. He now has a second job as a cab driver, attempting to get his credit respectable again.
I don't recall the exact quote, but Martin Luther King said something like: "if you are a street sweeper, then be the best street sweeper you can be, so that on the day you approach the Kingdom's gates, all the hosts of heaven will stand up and say, behold! Here is the greatest street sweeper mankind ever saw.
God's definition of greatness is not ours.
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