01/17/26 Weekend Grif.Net - Kindness
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[This is a reprint from the Grif.Net January 20, 2001, 25 years ago this week. Wonderful lesson still today.]
A few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, some of the East Berliners decided they were going to send their West Berlin adversaries a little "gift." They loaded a dump truck with garbage, broken bricks, stones, building material, and anything else with zero value. They drove the truck across the border, gained clearance, and dumped it on the West Berlin side.
Needless to say, the West Berliners were incensed and were going to "get even" with them. Fortunately, a very wise man intervened and gave them entirely different counse. As a result, they responded and loaded a dump truck with food (which was scarce in East Berlin), clothing (also scarce), medical supplies (even scarcer), and a host of other essential items. They took the truck across the border, carefully unloaded it all, and left a neat sign that read, "Each gives according to his ability to give."
We might all learn the lesson of real kindness from them.
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Dr Bob Griffin
Continue steadfastly in prayer,
being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
