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Inspirational
Stories
In
His Garden
God looked around His garden and found an empty place.
He then looked down upon the earth and saw your tired face.
He put His arms around you and lifted you to rest.
God's garden must be beautiful. He only takes the best.
He knew
that you were suffering. He knew you were in pain.
He knew that you would never get well on earth again.
He saw the road getting rough and the hills were hard to climb.
So He closed your weary eyelids and whispered, "Peace
be thine".
It broke
our hearts to lose you but you didn't go alone.
Part of us went with you the day God took you home.
If tears could build a stairway and heartaches make a lane,
We'd walk a path to heaven to be with you again.
-Author
Unknown
Jessie' Glove
I do a
lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation,
a national chain of convenience stores. Among the topics we
address in our seminars is the retention of quality employees
- a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale
in the service industry. During these discussions, I ask the
participants, "What has caused you to stay long enough
to become a manager?" Some time back a new manager took
the question and slowly, with her voice almost breaking, said,
"It was a $19 baseball glove."
Cynthia
told the group that she originally took a Circle K clerk job
as an interim position while she looked for something better.
On her second or third day behind the counter, she received
a phone call from her nine-year old son, Jessie. He needed
a baseball glove for Little League. She explained that as
a single mother, money was very tight, and her first check
would have to go for paying bills. Perhaps she could buy his
baseball glove with her second or third check.
When Cynthia
arrived for work the next morning, Patricia, the store manager,
asked her to come to the small room in back of the store that
served as an office. Cynthia wondered if she had done something
wrong or left some part of her job incomplete from the day
before. She was concerned and confused. Patricia handed her
a box. "I overheard you talking to your son yesterday,"
she said, "and I know that it is hard to explain things
to kids, This is a baseball glove for Jessie because he may
not understand how important he is, even though you have to
pay bills before you can buy gloves. You know we can't pay
good people like you as much as we would like to; but we do
care, and I want you to know you are important to us."
The thoughtfulness,
empathy and love of this convenience store manager demonstrates
vividly that people remember more how much an employer cares
than how much the employer pays. An important lesson for the
price of a Little League baseball glove.
-Author
Unknown |
Cosmos
of Happiness
