March Sandwich is..........

The Sandwich on the menu this month is: Willingness to pay the price in hard work and sacrifices, placed between rewards that follow hard work!

Wow! What can I say about hard work and the rewards that follow? This is a subject that can seem contradicting if we are not careful how we view it!

The United States is a country that many seek for "freedom" and opportunities to have a better life and a better lifestyle. Some flee their country from war, disasters, and hunger. The journey here is a sacrifice; because many have to leave with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Whether it is determination or fear, they took the risk and most of the refugees make it unharmed.

What is fascinating to me is once they arrive in the United States, they have employment almost immediately, learn the language and the culture, and are eager for their children to get a quality education that was impossible to obtain in their country ~ due to the poverty and oppression they suffered there.

The employment they accept is menial to us, but coming from a country that can pay as little as .25 cent an hour, receiving $8 an hour in a 40 hour week is a drastic increase that will feed their family and pay rent.

The reward for the sacrifice is food every night, shelter, and a safe place to raise a family. In addition to obtaining a balance of saving, spending and giving to their loved ones in their country, so that they too can have "freedom"!

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. Proverbs 14:23 NIV

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