Starting Small …
Theme of the Week: Work Habits in Balance
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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Key Bible Verse: Work hard and cheerfully at whatever you do … the Master you are serving is Christ (Colossians 3:23, 24). Bonus Reading: Proverbs 6:6; 13:4
In 1946, a year after the end of World War II, Truett Cathy sold his car, pooled savings with his younger brother, Ben, and borrowed money to buy for $10,600 the Dwarf Grill, a suburban Atlanta 24-hour restaurant with just ten counter stools and four tables.
The Cathy family wanted to share the disciplined joy of gut-wrenching work, and brought up their children to work hard. As toddlers, Truett's wife, Jeanette, would dress them up as fairy-tale dwarfs. They memorized jingles and bounced around, singing to the customers. When they could reach the counters, they rang the register or washed the dishes. God, Truett told his children, rejoices in our successes, not our failures.
If that's true, God has rejoiced a good deal over the Cathys. By the late sixties, Truett had developed the staple of his business—the boneless chicken sandwich. At the time, there was nothing like it on the market. In 1967 he scored another coup—opening the nation's first in-mall fast-food restaurant. In 1990 Business Atlanta magazine named Truett Atlanta's Most Respected CEO. Today, Chick-Fil-A has more than 1,340 restaurants. [continued 9/12]
—Stephen Graves & Thomas Addington in The Fourth Frontier
My Response: How does giving my best during working hours differ from letting work master me?
Thought to Apply: Nothing worth having comes to one except as a result of hard work. —Booker T. Washington
Adapted from The Fourth Frontier (Word, 2000) by permission.
Copyright © 2008 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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You are honored, Lord, when I work hard, rest well, and nourish my relationship with You, family, and friends. Help me strike the right balance.
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