What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given?
Mine was : "Take nothing for granted. Check and double check."
I was the caretaker of an old church. One very cold night I opened the valve to fill the boiler tank with water so it wouldn't run out during the night. Unfortunately, instead of closing the valve, I turned it wide open.
By morning, the pit that the furnace was in was completely flooded, extinguishing the boiler of course, leaving us with a very, very cold church.
Several of us young men bailed out the pit while the service was conducted in the adjoining room, with everyone bundled up against the frigid northern winter.
That's when the pastor gave me that advice that I have never forgotten.
I was the caretaker of an old church. One very cold night I opened the valve to fill the boiler tank with water so it wouldn't run out during the night. Unfortunately, instead of closing the valve, I turned it wide open.
By morning, the pit that the furnace was in was completely flooded, extinguishing the boiler of course, leaving us with a very, very cold church.
Several of us young men bailed out the pit while the service was conducted in the adjoining room, with everyone bundled up against the frigid northern winter.
That's when the pastor gave me that advice that I have never forgotten.
