SOMETHING TO HANG YOUR HAT ON-YOU ARE WHERE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE
The next time your morning seems to be going wrong and the kids are slow getting dressed and you can't seem to find the car keys and you hit every traffic light, don't get mad or frustrated. Instead, be thankful as perhaps someone is at work watching over you.
After Sept. 11, 2001, I heard of a man who was the head of security for a company that had invited the remaining members of another company who had been decimated by the attack on the Twin Towers to share their office space.
He told stories of why these people are alive and their counterparts no longer were. In the end, all the stories were just about little things that happen to us.
You might know the head of the company got in late that day because his son started kindergarten.
Another fellow is alive because it was his turn to bring donuts. There were other stories that I hope and pray will someday be gathered and put in a book. The one that struck me was the man who put on a new pair of shoes that morning, took the various means to get to work but before he got there, he developed a blister on his foot. He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid. That is why he is alive today.
Now when I am stuck in traffic, miss an elevator, turn back to answer a ringing telephone... all the little things that annoy
me, I think to myself, this is exactly where I am supposed to be at this very moment.
May the good Lord continue to bless us all with all those annoying little things.
It isn't the thing you do, dear,
Its the thing you leave undone
That gives you a bit of a heartache
At setting of the sun.
The tender work forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flowers you did not send, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts at night. read more...
It had been another exhausted day at work. I pulled into the driveway at home and slowly dragged myself to the front door. As I got closer to the front door, I heard a loud rumble at the bottom of the street. It was as if a one-car drag race had just begun. During this time of the early evening, there is plenty of activity on our street as people roll into home from work, children playing in the yard and dogs being walked...read more...
6/23/09 - SOMETHING TO HANG YOUR HAT ON-39 CENTS OF UNDERSTANDING A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy.
"Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies."
"Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, "these puppies come from...read more...
Plato said that work should be play. Some airline employees have taken his injunction seriously. After landing, one flight attendant announced, "Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride." There's a flight attendant who knows how to turn her work into play.
She may have been the same one who, as the passengers disembarked from the aircraft, announced,...read more...
6/19/09 - SOMETHING TO HANG YOUR HAT ON-FATHER'S DAY MESSAGE In the faint light of the attic, an old man, tall and stooped, bent his great frame and made his way to a stack of boxes that sat near one of the little half-windows. Brushing aside a wisp of cobwebs, he tilted the top box toward the light and began to carefully lift out one old photograph album after another. Eyes once bright but now dim searched longingly for the source that had drawn him here.
It began with the fond recollection of the love of his life, long gone, and somewhere...read more...
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