Manhole Covers

Day 34 Doxology: Do you know of those people that just skate by?  If you haven't already, you will come in contact in your life with those that do just enough to get by.  They answer only the questions that you ask.  They only ask a scripted question that they are supposed to ask knowing that if they go one more inch they could save someone a lot of trouble.

In the city that I live there is a road.  In the center of this road are two manhole covers.  If you are a member of my church...you know where this is headed.  These manhole covers provide a huge function.  They prevent cars and people from falling in the hole that has been created for the city sewer system.

In the center of this road are two solid yellow lines.  These lines provide a huge function.  They tell automobile drivers that it is unlawful to pass another car.  My doxology is where two huge function collide and excellence is achieved.  My doxology is a praise to God for all the people that seek to do things with excellence.

As stated earlier, it is obvious that some of us seek to take pride in our jobs.  Teachers teach just as hard on their 25th year as they did on their 1st year.  A lawyer works just as hard to uphold the law even if he, or she, have been tainted by the system for years.  A law enforcement officer still believes that a person is innocent until proving guilty.  There are people that still seek excellence in all that they do and each day that they do it.

However, some over time, have been broken down.  They feel the system is broken, nobody cares, or no one is watching.  Well, regardless if the system is broken we can control how we respond and fulfill our responsibilities.  I care, and I am watching.

In our city, on this road, under those lines are the manhole covers.  They both prevent people and cars from having a bad day, but excellence is not always achieve.  Where is that person that stops and picks up an empty cup, or that stray piece of paper?  I believe they are out there!  Where is that person that straightens those misaligned manhole covers...I question if they are out there?

I talk to my leadership at church, and I try to tell them everything has been given to us.  Why wouldn't we want to give everything of ourselves in return?  Live life with excellence!  It only takes a small amount of time to do things right THE FIRST TIME, than to have to redo something later.  Look for the manhole covers in your life and seek to straighten them up so that all the pieces of your life fit together.  If not for yourself, then for others?