Hey
Gang: I have heard it said that money is
not everything, it just buys everything!
To that I say “balderdash!”. When
I graduated from college I thought my next step to fame was to get a Master’s
degree- more head knowledge so that I could climb the ladder of what society
determined was success.
That was my idea, but God had a vastly different plan in mind; His intention was to increase my head knowledge- but He had a vastly different agenda for completing that task then I had.
That was my idea, but God had a vastly different plan in mind; His intention was to increase my head knowledge- but He had a vastly different agenda for completing that task then I had.
At that
point in my life I had a far different set of agendas than climbing the ladder
of success - their names - Michael, Cathey, Marjorie and David. Increased head knowledge was on the list, but
the priorities that topped the list were food, shelter, and all the necessary
things needed to provide for my family.
As you might
guess, the top rung on the list was “find a job – immediately, if not
sooner. I learned there was a need for
counselors at the local detention facility and immediately applied for a
job. I completed my paper work in the
morning that day, was interviewed in the afternoon and assigned to an
observation shift that night. On the
following day I was given a set of keys and assigned to South Side, the areas
of the detention facility that housed those who had committed class one
felonies. And my education began!
It did not
take me long to come to the realization that I did not want to spend the rest
of my life as a counselor in a juvenile detention home, but as I think back on
that experience today I realize God had placed me in a ‘school of higher
learning’ preparing me for what He had in mind for me at the end of that
apprenticeship.
Now most
folks would agree that my professors were anything but qualified to be
educators. There was Teddy - rip off
artist; Tommy and John - experts in breaking entering; a few car thief’s along
the way; and even a murderer or two mixed in.
In the next three years I learned far more about human relationships and
the deep hurts and frustrations of those who entered my section.
They taught me that they were more than
numbers on a case file, and the thing they wanted most was a Mom and Dad who
lived together with them in a home filled with love and commitment to each
other. They taught me the mundane things that were important to them but I
learned the one thing that would break a hole in the shell that they had built
up around them was my attention mixed in with an “I understand and forgive” passion.
Soooo, after
several career moves and changes of venue I adopted a motto for my life “Don’t
Get Too Comfortable For You May Block What God Has in Mind For You!” To that I would add: “No matter how mundane
you may think your job, or even your life is, remember God is not finished with
you yet. When the day comes that you stand before God to give an account of
what you did with His Son Jesus, His interest will not be how much money you
had in the bank or how high you climbed on the corporate ladder. Jesus said “There is no great love than to lay down your
life for another.”
Blessings,
**** New
Post Tues Oct 27th on Grampswhatshappeningman.blogspot.com
Gramps
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