(Note: Sundays I usually try to post something semi-religious or spiritual I guess as a way of placating my Catholic guilt about not doing anything else of that nature on any given Sunday. This week though the best that I could come up with is this bricklayer story. Maybe I should go to church after all.)
Few weeks back I did a post about job satisfaction and how folks do or do not like what they are doing for a living (click here.) Along those lines, just the other day I heard Michael Smerconish on XM’s POTUS channel tell this story about three bricklayers.
Three men were laying bricks. A passerby asked each of them what he was doing. The first man replied “I am laying bricks.” The second man said “I am building a Church.” The third man said “I am building the house of God for all to see.”
Smerconish noted that for the first man, the bricklaying was a job, whereas for the second fellow it was a career. However, for the third bricklayer, it was his calling. (I found an online variation of this that makes the same points (click here.))
Having Grandson Shawn in the vehicle with me at the time, I used this as the starting point for my “Life is what you make it” lesson. I then explained the “Three kinds of people” to him: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who say “What happened?” I think he got it.
Goofy song here from Mick, but in a way it kind of “works.” It was the first single released from Mick’s solo album Primitive Cool. This was back when he and Keith were feuding over their work habits (click here.)
