"Ma'am, I heard you were looking for help. I can dust and sweep and launder and iron the finest apparel." We know the man that said those words as a brilliant inventor and educator. We know him as the man that mastered the peanut. It is absolutely true that he became those things, but he did not start there. We make stories, even true life stories, a little less than real when we rush straight to the victory portion. George Washington Carver was one of the most accomplished men to ever grace this planet. He had a great mind and he nurtured it. He had a tremendous faith in God that enhanced his understanding even more. Mr. Carver however, was not born in the lab with a beaker in his hand. His introduction to adult life was working in the kitchen of a white woman from Kansas named Mrs. Payne. If we can learn to start where we are with what we have, we just may get to places that are beyond our wildest dreams. There may be a few exceptions, but most people don't just start at the top. The real question for the overwhelming majority of us is what are we willing to do to get the maximum from our lives? Once we answer that question, we have to start somewhere.
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