Here lived a great person!

"What I'm saying to you this morning, my friends, even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.'"

-- Martin Luther King

I've always loved this quote, although I give the credit to a friend of mine who sent this to me in an email this morning. I've always thought this can be attributed to anything we do in life: that 20 page paper due next week, the piles of laundry that need to be washed and dried and folded and put away, the mountains of housework that never seem to end (allusion that mothers of families will especially understand), homework that never ends (even if you finish it, you'll end up with more!), your part-time (or full-time job), your spiritual life - all these things we can do well if we put our hearts into it. "Here lived a great (fill in position/job here) who did his/her job well!" 

Here! Here!