Cal Ripken of the Post Office
Cal Ripken played for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team for 21 years. He had 3,184 hits, 431 homeruns and 1,695 RBI’s. Perhaps he is most well-known, however, for the number of consecutive games played. Lou Gehrig had held the record for 56 years until Ripken broke it with 2,131 consecutive games played on September 6, 1995. I was a twenty-five-day old newlywed so I don’t remember watching the game! Yet, it was voted the “Most Memorable Moment” in Major League Baseball history.
Deborah Ford, age 64, retired from the U. S. Postal Service after having worked 44 years on the job without one single sick day! Many people use all the sick leave they can plus extra. But Ford had a different work ethic. What struck me was her response to the hub-bub: “I was trying to do the best I could, and that just evolved into working all my scheduled days.” If she didn’t feel well, Ford said she would just “shake it off” (World, February 23, 2013; pg. 20). What an inspiration!
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Solomon wrote: “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might” (Ecclesiastes 9:10). Do your best everyday – at whatever your hand finds to do – and the reward will be great – tangibly and intangibly.
–Paul Holland
