At a diner, I was standing in line to pay my bill behind two women who handed the young waitress a credit card.
After swiping the card, she loudly called out to her manager, "Mr. Allen, what do I do if it says 'reject'?"
As the women's faces reddened and customers turned to look, Mr. Allen, also the cook, calmly walked out from the kitchen.
"Well," he answered, "the first thing you do is shout it out loud enough to embarrass the customer, who might have been thinking about leaving you a tip."
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
"We must beware in our attitude toward people who are suffering that we do not blunder by imagining our point of view to be the only one."
- Oswald Chambers, in Baffled to Fight Better
There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them.
One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror, for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.
All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.
The other picture had mountains too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell and in which lightning played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall.
"Everywhere else in the world, loveliness precedes love. Only in the Gospel does love precede loveliness."
- Tullian Tchividjian
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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