What An Idea!

 

 Vesta Stoudt was working as a factory worker during World War Two packing ammunition boxes. She knew that there was a problem.

  The ammunition boxes were difficult to open. Now in a firefight, you don’t want to struggle to open the box, but you also don’t want a box that lets live ammo spill out in transport.

 So she came up with a solution. She told her bosses. They shot her down without much consideration. She tried again. No result. So, she took it up the chain of command. Way, way up the chain of command.

 On February 10, 1943, she wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt explaining the problem and offering a solution. Luckily for us he listened.

  Because her idea didn’t just help win the war, it became one of the most useful things in the world. Her idea was a strong cloth tape with an adhesive to close the seams. The idea would become duct tape, quite possibly the most useful ‘fix it all’ in the world.

  Proverbs 19:20 says, “Listen to counsel and accept discipline, That you may be wise the rest of your days”.  When you stop listening you stop getting better.  I don’t know why Vesta's bosses didn’t listen to her.  But they missed out because they did. We need to not make the same mistake.

  It never hurts to listen and consider ideas. You never know what may come out of them!