In the beginning, the Pencil maker spoke to the pencil saying, “There are five things you need to know before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and you will become the best pencil you can be”*First: * You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in someone’s hand. Second: You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but this is required if you are to become a better pencil. Third: You have the ability to correct any mistakes you might make. Fourth: The most important part of you will always be what’s insideFifth: No matter what the condition, you must continue to write. You must always leave a clear legible mark not matter how difficult the situation. The pencil understood, promising to remember, and went into the box fully conscious of its Maker’s purpose. Therefore it is not how long that you live that matters but how well you live. As martin Luther King Jr puts it:“if a man is called to be a street sweeperHe should sweep streetsEven as Michelangelo painted, Or Beethoven composed music, Or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so wellThat all the hosts of heaven and earthWill pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeperWho did his job well.“In the beginning, the Pencil maker spoke to the pencil saying, “There are five things you need to know before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and you will become the best pencil you can be”*First: * You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in someone’s hand. Second: You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but this is required if you are to become a better pencil. Third: You have the ability to correct any mistakes you might make. Fourth: The most important part of you will always be what’s insideFifth: No matter what the condition, you must continue to write. You must always leave a clear legible mark not matter how difficult the situation. The pencil under
