MONDAY MORNING MOMENTS Apr. 20, 1998 Vol. III Number 10
This week we honor our teachers. How grateful we are to each of them. We say to Mr. Rich Linton, our teacher of the year, “thanks for a job well done.” To all our wonderful teachers we appreciate you. The following story comes to mind when I think of you.
During World War II, England needed to increase its production of coal. Winston Churchill called together labor leaders to enlist their support. At the end of his presentation he asked them to picture in their minds a parade which he knew would be held in Piccadilly Circus after the war. First, he said, would come the sailor’s who had kept the vital sea lanes open. Then would come the soldiers who had come home from Dunkirk and then gone on to defeat Rommel in Africa. Then would come the pilots who had driven the Luftwaffe from the sky.
Last of all, he said, would come a long line of sweet-stained, soot-streaked men in miner’s caps. Someone would cry from the crowd, “And where were you during the critical days of our struggle?”
And from ten thousand throats would come the answer, “we were deep in the earth with our faces to the coal.”
Not all the jobs in a church are prominent and glamorous. But the people with there “Faces to the coal” play a vital role in helping the church accomplish its mission. THANKS TEACHERS FOR ALL YOU DO.
“Look at the Nations and watch - and be UTTERLY AMAZED. for I am going to do something in YOUR days that you would not believe even if you were told” Habakkuk 1:5
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