INDISPENSABLE

Author Unknown

 

Sometime, when you’re feeling important,

Sometime, when your ego’s in bloom,

Sometime, when you take it for granted

You’re the best qualified in the room.

 

Sometime, when you feel that your going

Would leave and unfillable hole,

Just follow this simple instruction

And see how it humbles your soul.

 

Take a bucket and fill it with water,

Put your hand in it, up to your wrist,

Pull it out, and the hole that is remaining

Is a measure of how you’ll be missed.

 

You may splash all you please when you enter,

You can stir up the water galore,

But stop, and you’ll find in a minute

That it looks quite the same as before.

 

The moral in this quaint example

Is do just the best you can,

Be proud of yourself, but remember,

There’s no indispensable man.

 

Remember—

The task ahead of us

Is never as great

 

What you are

Is God’s gift to you-

What you become

Is your gift to God.

 

 

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