{AMISH COMMUNITY NEWS} Vol. 5 No.12
September 11, 2013
Thought for things you should know about the Day Submitted by Sarah Miller September: One good thing about silence … it can’t be repeated or misquoted. Today will never return; use it well!
Thoughts on Work From Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“What I’m saying to you this morning, my friends: Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures! Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well!’ If you can’t be a pine on the top of a hill, be a scrub in the valley, but be the best little scrub on the side of the rill. Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. It isn’t by size that you win or you fail; be the best at whatever that you are!”
Thoughts from From Peggy Noonan, Columnist
“God made us as many things, including as workers. When you work you serve and take part. To work is to be integrated into the daily life (of the community) of the nation. There is pride and satisfaction in doing work well, in working with others and learning a discipline or a craft or an art. To work is to grow and to find out who you are. ... Work gives us purpose, stability, integration, shared mission. And so to be unable to work -- unable to find or hold a job -- is a kind of catastrophe for a human being. … And what I have been thinking in the weeks leading up to Labor Day is very simple: ‘Thank you, God, that I have a job.’ (And) May more of us be able to say those words on Labor Day 2014.”
3 Library Card Sign-UP Month 3 Kids’ Good Manners Month 3 Honey Month 3 Chicken Month 3 Rice Month 3 Potato Month 3 National Blueberry Popsicle Month 3 National Courtesy Month 3 Baby Safety Month 3 Self Improvement Month 3 Better Breakfast Month 3 The last day of September in any year always falls on a different day of the week from the last day of any other month. 3 September is the ninth month and the only month with the same number of letters in its name in English as the number of the month.
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; February has twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one; Excepting leap year, that’s the time, When February’s days are twenty-nine.
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