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chapter 5

BE THANKFUL

Every day when I was on my job, there were five guys out of the eight of us who were always complaining about the different work that we had to do, from loading and unloading trucks, to stacking boxes on pallets and placing paper label tags on boxes. None of this work was hard, but there were four guys in our crew who were flat-out lazy. Whenever they saw the boss man coming, that’s when they put work into high gear.

My point is stop cursing and complaining about your job task. Be thankful that God Almighty has blessed you with a job. Be thankful that he gives all of us health and strength to perform our job. Be thankful that God has made you to be the person he wanted you to be. Don’t try to be like someone else. It’s okay to strive and succeed like someone else. Just be you, and everything else will fall into place.

Whenever your parents ask you to take out the trash, mow the lawn, rake up leaves, wash the car, wash the dishes, clean up the house, don’t swell up and get angry like some of the guys that I used to work with. Be thankful that you have a mother and father alive that you can please. Be thankful that you have the health and strength to do it.

One Sunday morning, before making it to Sunday school, I saw a six-year-old boy on TV who had a disease that for every year he lived, his body aged ten years. He had the body of a sixty-year-old man. I couldn’t help but cry and whispered a prayer to God when I watched the little boy playing baseball running around the bases looking and moving like an old man.

So, kids, don’t grow up to be like some of the guys that I used to work with who complained so much that it made me sick at my heart and stomach to hear the same thing over and over every day, except on payday.

Kids, I see nothing but greatness in all of you. I see book writers, I see doctors, I see music artists, I see movie stars, I see painting artists, and I see professional athletes and so on.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Be courageous, be daring, be strong. If you have a job, be thankful that God has blessed you with one because he didn’t have to. Do the best work that you can do while working. If there’s something that you want that neither you nor your parents have the money to get it, ask for what you want. If you can’t get it by asking, ask someone, could you earn the money by doing a chore for them? Don’t take the shortcut in life by selling drugs or stealing because you will end up in a place that you would regret, and that’s in jail or even in the graveyard.