Tuesdays Journey
Matthew Sorg, CHST, CESCO
Regional Health & Safety Professional JW Danforth
Good Morning Friends,
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Tuesday is here for the taking, I hope your week got off to a great start. But as the story will remind you; sometimes we all need a little help in our journey, whether it be guidance, an open ear, or just knowing someone has your back. By using our resources we can accomplish anything in this life. Will you ask for help when needed????? The choice is yours, do what is right for you…
Have a Blessed Tuesday!
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Each moment of our lives is a picture which we had never seen before and which will never see again. So enjoy and live life and make each moment beautiful.
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A young boy and his father were walking along a forest path. At some point, they came across a large tree branch on the ground in front of them.
The boy asked his father, “If I try, do you think I could move that branch?” His father replied, “I am sure you can, if you use all your strength.”
The boy tried his best to lift or push the branch, but he was not strong enough and he couldn’t move it.
He said, with disappointment, “You were wrong, dad. I can’t move it.”
“Try again,” replied his father.
Again, the boy tried hard to push the branch. He struggled but it did not move.
“Dad, I cannot do it,” said the boy.
Finally his father said, “Son, I advised you to use all your strength. You didn’t.
You didn’t ask for my help.”
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Some reflections on this story…
We haven’t used all our strength until we have recognized, appreciated and galvanized the strength and support of those who love and surround us, and those who care about our purpose.
Our real strength lies not in independence, but in interdependence.
No individual person has all the strengths, all the resources and all the stamina required for the complete blossoming of their vision.
That requires the inspired collaboration of many like-hearted beings.
To ask for help and support when we need it is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of wisdom.
It is a call for the greater strength that lives in our togetherness.
When we ask for help and we are refused, it just means we have to ask at another time, or ask in another way, or ask another person.
It helps to remember SWSWSWSW.
Some will, some won’t, so what, someone’s waiting!
When by yourself
You cannot manage
To complete any task
Use ALL your strength
Turn around and ASK!
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Monday's
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?A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor's office. "Is it true," she wanted to know, "that the medication you prescribed to me has to be taken for the rest of my life?"
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?"Yes, I'm afraid so," the doctor told her.
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?There was a moment of silence before the senior lady replied, "I'm wondering, then, just how serious is my condition because this prescription is marked 'NO REFILLS'."
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