Indispensable Man

"Indispensable Man"
Saxon White Kessinger

Sometime when you're feeling important;

Sometime when your ego's in bloom

Sometime when you take it for granted

You're the best qualified in the room,

Sometime when you feel that your going

Would leave an unfillable hole,

Just follow these simple instructions

And see how they humble your soul;

Take a bucket and fill it with water,

Put your hand in it up to the wrist,

Pull it out and the hole that's remaining

Is a measure of how you'll be missed.

You can splash all you wish when you enter,

You may stir up the water galore,

But stop and you'll find that in no time

It looks quite the same as before.

The moral of this quaint example

Is do just the best that you can,

Be proud of yourself but remember,

There's no indispensable man.

I recently was reminded of this over the last month. I am a nurse and I work for a visiting agency. I was working in another town for the last year and a half and had a chance to transfer to the town I live . It was hard to leave clients that I had really begun to build up a relationship with. Many were sad, a couple cried when I told them I was moving (I say this in all humility). Guess what??? They are all doing just fine with their new nurse and most all like her very well. I am replaceable. Sometimes I believe God places us in peoples lives only for a season. It is our duty to make the very best of that season.
If we hang on to a certain place when there is a door that clearly shows us to leave, we may hinder the work that God has for someone else to do.