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Give it all you've got!
'Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper' Proverbs 13:4
By the time she was 16, Romana Ba?uelos had been deserted by her husband and left to raise her two children alone. Living in Mexico, she was poverty-stricken, untrained in any profession and unable to speak English. But that didn't stop her. She had a dream - one she refused to let go of. With only a few dollars in her pocket she headed for Los Angeles, where she used her last seven dollars to take a taxi to the home of a distant relative.
Romana refused to live on the charity of others. Immediately she found a job washing dishes, followed by a second job making tortillas from midnight until 6 am. From her two jobs she was able to save $500 which she used to invest in her own tortilla machine. Over time, and with a great deal of hard work and study, she became the owner of Ramona's Mexican Food Products, the largest Mexican food products business in the world. And that's not all. She was hand-picked by President Dwight Eisenhower to become the thirty-seventh United States Treasurer.
Whether you flip burgers or design web pages, whether you have a little or a lot, remember these words: 'Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper' (Prov. 13:4 NLT). God will add His blessing to your best effort so today give it all you've got!
written by Bob Gass
'Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper' Proverbs 13:4
By the time she was 16, Romana Ba?uelos had been deserted by her husband and left to raise her two children alone. Living in Mexico, she was poverty-stricken, untrained in any profession and unable to speak English. But that didn't stop her. She had a dream - one she refused to let go of. With only a few dollars in her pocket she headed for Los Angeles, where she used her last seven dollars to take a taxi to the home of a distant relative.
Romana refused to live on the charity of others. Immediately she found a job washing dishes, followed by a second job making tortillas from midnight until 6 am. From her two jobs she was able to save $500 which she used to invest in her own tortilla machine. Over time, and with a great deal of hard work and study, she became the owner of Ramona's Mexican Food Products, the largest Mexican food products business in the world. And that's not all. She was hand-picked by President Dwight Eisenhower to become the thirty-seventh United States Treasurer.
Whether you flip burgers or design web pages, whether you have a little or a lot, remember these words: 'Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper' (Prov. 13:4 NLT). God will add His blessing to your best effort so today give it all you've got!
written by Bob Gass
