How to Put a Touch of Glory in Your Life

by Alexander Green

There's an old story about a man who walks by a construction site and sees workmen pushing wheelbarrows, each filled with an enormous stone.

He asks one what they're doing.

"What does it look like?" he says with a sneer. "Hauling rocks."

Unsatisfied with that answer, the passerby asks another construction worker the same question.

The workman doesn't bother looking up. "We're putting up a wall."

Frustrated, the man tries one last time. "I say there," he asks the next fellow, "can you tell me what you men are doing here?"

The workman puts down his wheelbarrow, wipes his forehead and says with a broad smile, "We're building a cathedral."

Here are three men, all doing the same job. One is hauling rocks. One is putting up a wall. One is building a cathedral.

This story says a lot about the attitude that each of us brings to our lives... or could if we were willing to change our perspective.

Want to put a touch of glory in your life? Find a way to change your perspective, to understand how what you do - in your home, in the workplace or for a charity - meets someone else's needs or improves their lives.

The choice is yours. You can haul rocks. You can put up walls. Or you can build a cathedral.