Every Job is Important

Today, allow me to share with you one thought on leading like a servant. 

The historian Don McCullough tells the story of a time during World War II when England needed to increase its coal production. 

So Winston Churchill called all the country’s labor leaders together to get their buy-in on this plan.  And at the end of his presentation, he asked these labor leaders to picture in their minds a great parade to be held in the center of London. 

First in the parade, he said, would be those sailors who’d kept the vital sea lanes open.  Second would come the soldiers who’d come home from Dunkirk then went on to defeat General Rommel in North Africa.  Next would come the pilots who’d driven the Luftwaffe from the skies. 

And last of all, he told them to picture, would come a long line of sweat-stained, soot-streaked men in miner’s caps. 

And when someone cried from the crowd, “And where were you during the critical days of our battles?” ten thousand voices would cry out, “We were deep in the earth with our faces to the coal.”

Not every job in life is glamorous or gets bathed in spotlights.  But if it seems like you’re down digging with your face in the coal, know that the work God has called you to can be just as vital to God’s mission here on earth. 

And if you’re feeling stuck or unappreciated at this stage of your life, I’d love to help you see again how significant you are, and help you take steps to understand and life into your unique life’s calling and purpose.