Are You Listening

GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY FRIDAY!

RSB3- Congrats on a very successful competition at Ponder last weekend and GOOD LUCK at the UIL Region 7 Marching Contest at 3:00 tomorrow Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls!

Lady Blues and Graham Steer Cross Country are REGIONAL QUALIFIERS!  Congratulations and BEST OF LUCK at the Regional Meet this coming Monday!

Lady Blues Volleyball are DISTRICT CHAMPIONS! The victory over Burkburnett this past Tuesday clinched the District Championship for the 2017 Lady Blues Volleyball Team.  They will be at home this afternoon at 4:30 for Senior Night  finishing out district play vs Hirschi.  GREAT JOB LADIES…. THE BEST IS YET TO COME!

Pink Out & Relay for Life- The Lady Blues Pink Out fundraiser at the game vs Iowa Park raised $1100.00.  The funds will be donated to Relay for Life, Young County! Great job ladies and parents!

Patterson Gives Back- Great news!!! The Graham Junior High and Woodland Elementary campuses have been selected as Finalists for the PATTERSON GIVES BACK CONTEST and need your votes!!!! You can vote daily until midnight on Tuesday, October 31.  To vote, please go to pattersongivesback.com and select the “vote for the nominees” option. Please visit the site and vote for Graham Junior High School and Woodland Elementary. You are encouraged to share this information and to vote often!

Garments of Grace- Just wanted to remind you all with the change of weather that we do have Garments of Grace available.  They donate clothes to our kiddos who need them.  The parent/guardian of the child does have to call and schedule an appointment and take their child to pick up the clothes. Please contact your campus counselor if you would like the information to send home with any of your students.

Are You Listening...

Back when the telegraph was the was the fastest method of long-distance communication, a young man applied for a job as a Morse Code operator.

Answering an ad in the newspaper, he went to the office address that was listed. When he arrived, he entered a large, busy office filled with noise and clatter, including the sound of the telegraph in the background. A sign on the receptionist’s counter instructed job applicants to fill out a form and wait until they were summoned to enter the inner office. The young man filled out his form and sat down with the seven other applicants in the waiting area. After a few minutes, the young man stood up, crossed the room to the door of the inner office, and walked right in. Naturally the other applicants perked up, wondering what was going on. They muttered among themselves that they hadn’t heard any summons yet. They assumed that the young man who went into the office made a mistake and would be disqualified.

Within a few minutes, however, the employer escorted the young man out of the office and said to the other applicants, “Gentlemen, thank you very much for coming, but the job has just been filled.”

The other applicants began grumbling to each other, and one spoke up saying, “Wait a minute, I don’t understand. He was the last to come in, and we never even got a chance to be interviewed. Yet he got the job. That’s not fair!”

The employer said, “I’m sorry, but all the time you’ve been sitting here, the telegraph has been ticking out the following message in Morse Code: ‘If you understand this message, then come right in. The job is yours.’ None of you heard it or understood it. This young man did. The job is his.”

We live in a world that is full of busyness and clatter, like that office. People are distracted and unable to truly hear. Are you tuned in to the message being shared with you? Are you listening?

CORNY JOKE OF THE DAY:

Why did Humpty Dumpty love Autumn? (Scroll down for the answer.)

He had a great Fall!