The author has left this story unpublished-no copyrights. Feel free to copy down this author's motivational story, upon all the benefits of work. WWW.AUTHORDAVE.COM Give this story to your children or grandchildren. If any person can get this Godly truth filled principle into their life, their entire life will be 100% blessed. Feel free to make copies of this story for all your employees, or give a copy to your boss!
From http://www.authordave.com/ Everything that I have ever received was a gift into my life, from God, through myself working. Everything that my grandfather, everything that my father has received into their lives, has come to them in this same Godly way. Work is "not" a curse. Work is a 100% total blessing from above. Work is the tool in which a man or woman brings and gives blessings into their family.
My grandfather lived into his late 70's. My grandfather's hands were strong as an ox. This man worked every single day of his life. Every morning he ate eggs, potatoes, bacon and he loved bananas. Then he would go out in the Lord's strength, and sweat/work it off. One wife and three children. Then plenty of good old fashioned work. Grandpa did not borrow, he just went without. Or he worked for it, or he made it with his own hands. My grandparents lived in a small four-room house, small garage, with a small yard. One small used car that he fixed himself. Nothing was borrowed, all was owned. And his life was a stress-less daily joy. This man is God's link unto getting me here today. They also owned a small three-room cabin next to a beautiful fishing lake.
My own father drove a semi-truck for forty years straight, at 10-12 hours a day. My dad's gift to this world was Godly work with his hands. Dad and Mom bought ten acres of scrap land for cheap, and through work they turned this once useless land into a God given paradise. Planting gardens, fruit trees, flowers, and lawns
When I was eight years old, Dad drove us out onto our new property. When I was 10-12 years old, Dad, Mom and I, built a four-bedroom house from the basement on up. The livingroom had a 17 foot high beam ceiling complete with a wrap around fireplace. Due to the hard work, yet joyful work of my parents, I grew up in a paradise for kids. But always through God's "gift" of work.
I helped build an entire house, ten acres, plant trees, and split and hauled 150 pickup loads of wood with Dad. This was the first sixteen years of my life. At age seventeen I went to work for a meat processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa. I worked for two years, of very, very grueling work. Coming home covered in blood from the meat, and sweat from my body. Every day six days a week. Yet I still consider this all as a gift.
When I was twenty years old, I obtained my first management job in a small restaurant, working for very, very Godly wise men. I learned more from those old times than most men get today in ten years of college. They taught me the good old-fashioned principles of customer service, customer service, customer service. Take care of the customer and everything else will care for you. Just as Christ's teachings on serving and giving unto others first!
Work is a true blessing unto any man that will wisely work. Since then I have been a restaurant manager for over fifteen years. Getting wiser and more talented with each passing year. But in Christ's wisdom first.
Today I am 46 years old. Through work my wife and I have traveled to twenty-three states west of the great Mississippi River. Work is God's gift for His children that he loves. And through work and believing with a poistive mental attitude, I still believe that this is the greatest country in the world. "Our beloved United States of America." In this country, any young man if he wishes, with God and the desire to work, can still become anything that his heart desires.
Hard, smart work, brings in the food into your belly. And into your family's bellies also. Joyful work has built this country of ours, from nothing, into a strong God fearing land. Work has built the roads, bridges and skyscrapers. Work has built the ships, trucks, airplanes. Work put man on the moon! With God, and man's work, nothing cannot be done. "With God all things are possible."
Work also makes this United States of America, the greatest most generous giving country in the world. The United States is the greatest, highest output giver in this world. We give more than most countries combined. Yet we must work, and also give, joyfully.
Take any young man. Any young man or woman. Teach them the principles and benefits of good sound old-fashioned work ethics. Let them see all that Godly work will obtain for their family's lives. Then our young folks will see all the endless benefits, and get enthusiastically excited about their own futures.
Now I write books. http://www.authordave.com/ Now I work for Christ, telling all that will hear, all the benefits of Christ and His teachings. I joyfully work for Christ. I joyfully give through Christ. Each book written takes approximately 300-400 hours from start to finish. Yet when the work is complete, the lifelong benefits are joyfully endless. Until now I have never written a single word. I am just an average man who did the work. I put in the time. Jesus told me to do these books, and I humbly went through the process until completion. Now my joy flows daily and deep.
My grandfather, my dad, my own hands, and now down into the hands of my own son Curtis. The same Godly principles that worked for grandpa, will now work for my own son, three generations later. The same Godly truths that worked for Abraham and Moses, will now also work for me.
Work is a joyful daily blessing from above. In no way is work ever a curse. Work is the wise man's tool for his family's joyfu Christ filled lifetime.
My grandfather and my son's great-grandfather was a very wise man. The older I get the wiser this man becomes to me. A small house, a small yard, no debts, one wife. My grandparents owned a small three-room cottage near a lake in Northwest Iowa. This property is filled many old trees, back dirt roads, many similar cottages near by. The thing that impressed me the most as his grandson were the bamboo pole fishing rods in the corner of this small cabin. Right next to the front door. As a child we used to vacation there for a week in the summer. It was paradise for me. We had to walk a block away to get fresh drinking water from an old red hand pump well. My grandfather was very wise. Slow, simple days up at his small simple cabin. His two strong working hands, believing in God, and the family he raised.
I now daily strive for such simplicity as my days are directed along by God, Christ and his gift of the Holy Spirit.