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I was going along one of the main
streets in Lincoln the other day. I have seen this fellow
before. Every time I see him, he is standing on a street
corner waving what looks like a lunch bucket. I pulled into
a place to get some cheaper gas. You know, this place was a
couple cents cheaper than the others I had passed.
I kind of watched this fellow. He
would have made a real good traffic cop. He was waving that
bucket, like ???come on get a move on, move it.??? I had seen
him before and I had it figured out he has a small problem.
But what??™s with this waving of the bucket?
Today I found out. He was waiting for
a bus. In his mind he thinks that if he can speed up the car
traffic, his bus will get there faster. You know he may be
right.
Now, I have feelings for a person like
that. I have a saying. "There go I, but by the grace of
God." I am not sure that isn't said by others about me. In
my mind, we are all short somewhere in something.
I also think each person is important.
I think there is a need for each person. Just like a pebble
of sand on a beach. You see each pebble is just a grain of
sand so to speak.. But together with many other pebbles
make the beach. We are like that too.
Too many people make with the "ME,
MYSELF, and I" stuff. In other words The Big I and the
little u. Stop and think.. If it weren't for the rank and
file soldiers, what would a general do? He can bark orders
till the cows come home.. Nothing happens ???til the rank and
file soldiers make a move.
The fellow on the corner is a pebble,
just like you and me. He is important to the machinery of
this life. He has a job doing something somewhere. Someone
depends upon him showing up, somewhere, on a job. And he
depends on that job. Some depend on you, and you depend on
others.
Just like pebbles on a beach. One by
itself is just a grain of sand. Lots of grains of sand
make the beach. A lot of us together can get something
done. A general by his self does nothing, but barks orders.
?© 2004 Bill Walker
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