Never Alone

Any decision we make in life can affect someone else. People make judgments and form opinions about what they see you do or not do. That means that you may influence someone and not even realize it. For instance, if your mail carrier is used to seeing you day after day, picking up your mail each morning, and for several mornings you do not, that will create enough concern in him for him to mention it to someone. He may mention it to the newspaper boy, the old retired gentleman down the street or your neighbor and slight acquaintance from the house next door.

Now the reason for your not getting the mail might be something as benign as having gone on vacation or something as serious as your having fallen in the home. The point that I am trying to make is that we must never think that what we do is our business and our business alone. Whether you have family or not, there is somebody that watches you daily and admires. It could be the paperboy, the pizza delivery person, some neighborhood child or some child at your church, etc.

So

Whatever your leadership lot is in life, be it great or small, always remember to lead in a positive manner and a positive direction because somebody follows you and holds you in high regard. Here is a poem I wrote with this thought in mind.

 

Torchbearer

You bear not the torch for naught

You bear it for saints long gone

Who for the Savior’s cause fought

In hopes of spreading the glow of His love

To encompass all mankind, yes

You bear not the torch for yourself alone.

Doing What I Can, While I Can Because I Care,

Alma L. Grateful Stepping On Carr-Jones