During the Moving Sale at our Pittsburgh house we met a number of very interesting people. An older couple stopped by accompanied by their son and his wife. We had several minutes of interesting conversation. Then I discovered that the younger gentleman had moved to Pittsburgh from Ohio a few months earlier and had now lost his job. It was at this time that I discovered the amazing fact that he had come to the 'Burgh as the scoreboard operator for the Pirates and the Steelers. Now he was laid off from that job. If you follow sports at all, you can see why the Pirates may not need a scoreboard operator, since they hardly ever score. But the Steelers? Are they getting ready for a dismal season? I'm certainly not making light of this man's plight and I do pray he will find work soon. But I could not help but see the humor in this encounter.
There is a lesson here for us all. Only two things can happen when we compare our score in life to others. 1. We discover we are ahead of others and get prideful. 2. We discover we are behind where others are and we get depressed. Both are detrimental to our development. Perhaps we should fire the scoreboard operator as well!
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