Late For Work


                                 Author Unknown



               Next time your morning seems to be going wrong, the children
          are slow getting  dressed, you can't seem  to find the car  keys,
          and you  hit every  traffic light, don't  get mad  or frustrated;
          praise God instead.  God is at work watching over you.

               After September  11, I  happened to call  a man  on business
          that I didn't  know and have not,  nor will ever, talk  to again.
          This  day, he felt  like talking.   He was head of  security of a
          company that had  invited the remaining members of  a company who
          had  been decimated  by the  attack on the  Twin Towers  to share
          their office  space.   With  his voice  full of  awe  he told  me
          stories of  why these  people were  alive and  their counterparts
          were dead.  All the stories were just little things.

               As you might know, a  head of a company got in late that day
          because  his son started kindergarten.   Another fellow was alive
          because  it was  his turn to  bring donuts.   One woman  was late
          because her  alarm clock  didn't go off  in time.   One  was late
          because  of being stuck  on the  NJ Turnpike  because of  an auto
          accident.  One missed his bus.   One spilled food on her  clothes
          and had to take time to  change.  One's car wouldn't start.   One
          went back to answer the telephone.   One had a child that dawdled
          and didn't get  ready as soon as  he should.  One  couldn't get a
          taxi.

               There were other  stories that I hope and  pray will someday
          be gathered and put  in a book.  The  one that struck me was  the
          man who put on a new pair of shoes that morning, took the various
          means  to get  to work but  before he  got there, he  developed a
          blister on his foot. He stopped at a drugstore to buy a band aid.
          That is why he is alive today.

               Now when I  am stuck in traffic, miss an elevator, turn back
          to answer a  ringing telephone, all the little  things that annoy
          me, I think to  myself, this is exactly where God wants  me to be
          at this  very moment.   May God  continue to  bless you  with all
          those annoying little things and may you remember their  possible
          purpose.


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