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What Does Your Future Look Like?
By Mark Flippo
The Scars of our past will not shape our future!
I grew up on a share cropping farm. There were six of us and then my oldest brother died.
Then there were five. Even though I never had an opportunity to meet him, I will see him some day. It was a hard life, but it gave me my drive to work hard in everything I do. I learned early that lazy people cannot work a farm! Lazy people just do not thrive at anything! They are always looking for a way out of work!
My parents were old fashioned people. Yes, that meant an occasional spanking. People from that generation understood that they were not being abused. Just a form of encouragement. Slightly painful but necessary. OUCH!
I worked at the Iowa State Fair grounds as a maintenance worker for three years. Then it was in Meridth publishing, (foreshadowing a future job that was for most of my life) in the cafe night meal line. Next was Delta Airlines for one year in NYC-Kennedy then transferred to St Louis when they became overstaffed. I worked for Delta an additional two years here.
From there was an opening at the PPH camera dept. I applied and they got the best thing that could have ever happened to them. Seriously! When God does the work, it will always be the best thing for that company. A few odd jobs to help pay the bills, at the same time as PPH. I started out in an entry level position then was moved up to management. Prepress was a very stressful work. That I worked very hard to meet deadlines with my crew. Good ones came and went. My scars went deep it took the Lord a long time to heal me!
The company sadly fell into bad leadership. I slowly lost staff until the bosses demanded I do everything! I did, but it also cost me my health I was in and out of the hospital. Sadly, in prayer God told me what was going on with the bosses. "HE said they chose to run the organization themselves, without consulting Him first and in all things". They fell hard. They first lost one million members. Then more and more left. Only a few came in slowly to a hardnosed, manmade rules they lived by.
Sin became rampant of every kind. I would not share all the sadness that broke my heart to see it going on. I retired after 30 years after which I received no retirement party from them. Only my coworkers cared enough to give me a proper Goodbye!
Mangement chose to run things without Him, so "He say goodbye" and let man have his way! The orig. died and closed more than half of the depts and then had to sell the building they were in and move to a smaller building. Sadly, they could not even sell that building, every sell fell through. Blindness has fallen over the whole orig.
Make sure you ask God before doing anything. There are a few good people there. Thank you, Terry and Gina and the others, stay strong! Without Him you will find you're in major regret.
Trust Jesus, Is Your Only Wise Choice!
http://moderndayparablesrcf.com
By Mark Flippo
The Scars of our past will not shape our future!
I grew up on a share cropping farm. There were six of us and then my oldest brother died.
Then there were five. Even though I never had an opportunity to meet him, I will see him some day. It was a hard life, but it gave me my drive to work hard in everything I do. I learned early that lazy people cannot work a farm! Lazy people just do not thrive at anything! They are always looking for a way out of work!
My parents were old fashioned people. Yes, that meant an occasional spanking. People from that generation understood that they were not being abused. Just a form of encouragement. Slightly painful but necessary. OUCH!
I worked at the Iowa State Fair grounds as a maintenance worker for three years. Then it was in Meridth publishing, (foreshadowing a future job that was for most of my life) in the cafe night meal line. Next was Delta Airlines for one year in NYC-Kennedy then transferred to St Louis when they became overstaffed. I worked for Delta an additional two years here.
From there was an opening at the PPH camera dept. I applied and they got the best thing that could have ever happened to them. Seriously! When God does the work, it will always be the best thing for that company. A few odd jobs to help pay the bills, at the same time as PPH. I started out in an entry level position then was moved up to management. Prepress was a very stressful work. That I worked very hard to meet deadlines with my crew. Good ones came and went. My scars went deep it took the Lord a long time to heal me!
The company sadly fell into bad leadership. I slowly lost staff until the bosses demanded I do everything! I did, but it also cost me my health I was in and out of the hospital. Sadly, in prayer God told me what was going on with the bosses. "HE said they chose to run the organization themselves, without consulting Him first and in all things". They fell hard. They first lost one million members. Then more and more left. Only a few came in slowly to a hardnosed, manmade rules they lived by.
Sin became rampant of every kind. I would not share all the sadness that broke my heart to see it going on. I retired after 30 years after which I received no retirement party from them. Only my coworkers cared enough to give me a proper Goodbye!
Mangement chose to run things without Him, so "He say goodbye" and let man have his way! The orig. died and closed more than half of the depts and then had to sell the building they were in and move to a smaller building. Sadly, they could not even sell that building, every sell fell through. Blindness has fallen over the whole orig.
Make sure you ask God before doing anything. There are a few good people there. Thank you, Terry and Gina and the others, stay strong! Without Him you will find you're in major regret.
Trust Jesus, Is Your Only Wise Choice!
http://moderndayparablesrcf.com