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This is a permanent job.
2. The successful applicant must be prepared to work hard.
3. The workplace is often a challenging and chaotic environment.
4. Applicants must possess excellent communication and organizational skills
and be willing to work variable hours,
which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call.
5. Extensive chauffeuring duties also required, but your travel expenses will not usually be reimbursed.
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Some overnight travel will be required,
including trips to camping sites on rainy weekends,
and countless sports tournaments in faraway places.
7. Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs £5.
8. Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly.
9. Must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are genuine, and not just someone crying wolf or playing.
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Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zips.
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Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects.
12. Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.
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Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next.
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HEALTH AND SAFETY: Must be able to handle the assembly and product safety testing of hundreds of toys and battery operated devices.
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ATTITUDE AND DEMEANOUR: Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.
Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product.
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Responsibilities also include floor maintenance, laundering and janitorial work throughout the place of employment.
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PROMOTION PROSPECTS: None.
Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.
18. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: None required, because no other form of employment is totally relevant, but On-the-job in-service training is offered on a continually exhausting basis.
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WAGES AND BONUSES: None; job satisfaction is what you hopefully receive.
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OUTLAYS: You pay every bill for your child at least until turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent.
When you die, you give them whatever is left.
The strangest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you should enjoy it and wish you could only do more.
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BENEFITS: While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no bonuses are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for free hugs for life if you play your cards right.
22. TENURE: For the rest of your life.
Honoring mothers
Everything that God has created should tell us something about Him
This includes relationships
God has created us as relational beings
Looking at the animal world
Relationships are varied and complex
Some animals mate for life—geese
Many animals may not have one partner for life, but they exist in herds or other social structures.
Other animals are solitary—come together to mate and then separate
Animals can show emotions to a certain extent--
showing affection for each other or for humans
An elephant mourning over the death of her baby
They know how to care for their young
Cat moving her babies because they were discovered
Animal relationships show the creativity of God,
But animal behavior to a large extent is programmed—instinct
They will always act for the most part one way
But still, animals show us something about God and we can worship Him
Human relationships are even more complex and show us even more about who God is
After all, the Bible says that He created man in His own image
Animals were just spoken into existence—amazing enough!
But mankind was created in His own image
Notice the possessive word here: His own image
There is something incredibly special here.
We see in our human relationships:
Choice
love, intimacy, communication (to a level far beyond that of the animal world)
And when we think about our human relationships, probably certain things stand out, depending on if we are talking about fathers, mothers, siblings, grandparents
Today we are honoring mothers
Maybe there are those here who did not know their mothers?
There are a lot of words that could describe the relationship we have to our mothers
For me, that word is “Comfort”.
There was a time in life when my dad had been laid off from his position at school
He took up work driving an oil truck—he fell off, injured his back, was laid up
my mother went back to work as an R.N.—working night shift—sleep for most of the day
hanging around the stairway leading from the dining room up to their bedroom waiting on her to come down
I needed her to comfort me
I don’t believe that I am alone in my experience of needing my mother to comfort me
I think especially for a child, his mothers arms/lap is a place where he finds comfort.
When all is wrong with the world, a child will go to his mother
Certainly there are exceptions to this
Even as an adult, there is comfort in talking to my mother and having her sympathize with my problems and recognize my pain.
Looking at my own children, I see the same thing in them
Looking at the children in this congregation, i see it in them as well
When there is hurt or pain
When a child is scared or uncertain
When a child just needs to feel someone holding him or her, they run to their mothers
Our mothers are the ones who bore us and nurtured us.
Our human relationships should exemplify the relationship we have with God
As we honor mothers today i want us to think about our God of comfort
Remarkable passage in Isaah 66
We need to understand the life and times of Isaiah.
From the first chapter, we understand that he was a prophet in Judah during the time of the Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah
King Uzziah
Enjoyed one of the longest reigns of any of the kings—52 years (only King Manasseh reigned longer, 55 years)
militarily was strong
Served the Lord but did not lead the people in serving the lord
Got proud and tried to offer incense, a job for the priests.
Got leprosy
King Jotham
Did better than Uzziah—again, we don’t read that he lead the people in worshipping the Lord
Ahaz
Very evil
Defeated by the Syrians and by Israel
The more trouble he had, the more unfaithful to the Lord he became
He even shut up the temple and set up alters in the street instead
Hezekiah
A good king
First thing he did was open up the Temple and celebrate the Passover with the people
He also struggled with pride but later repented
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