Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.
Tonight, the girls and I were watching an episode of Mythbusters from Netflix. It was the show about the myth of the phone books. For this one, the myth is that you can't rip a phone book if the pages are married together (or interlocked) with another one.
They first tried using human power to pull the phone books apart. It did not work. Than they tried to pull them apart using two cars. Those were also unable to pull the books apart. Finally, they had to use an armored tank and a personnel carrier from the military. Those were finally able to pull the phone books apart. The interesting part is that it took more than 8000 lbs of pressure to pull those books apart. It is not something that was easy to do.
Think about this for a minute. How easy are phone book pages to rip? (Just ask any one year old that has discovered the joy of ripping them!) I would never have imagined that the phone books had the potential to be that strong.
Any one of us, is probably not as strong as we think we ought to be. We can be blown and tossed in the wind. Ripped and torn apart in the trials of everyday living. But together, we can accomplish those things that need to be done. We can combine our time, our talents, and our work to accomplish so much more than any of us ever imagined. Like the soft, white snow, individually, we are not as strong as we would like to be, but collectively, we can be all that is needed. We can stop the traffic if we need to. We can change the world. We can change what people see and what they do simply by making a stand and then standing together.
With all the problems going on around us today, I think we need to remember how much we can change our tomorrows by working together today.
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach for the NFL once said:
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."
I've seen that mythbuster..I love the thoughts you had to go along with a phone book.
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THIS is an AWESOME post! I absolutely LOVE IT! Thank you so much for sharing it! (I may use it in FHE!) :)
ReplyDeleteI love this post and I had no idea phone books were that strong! Your examples really tie in so nicely with the last sentence of your post! Thank you for sharing your wisdom on NOBH! God bless!
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