Thanks for sharing your story Daniel. "The absolute best thing I can do in my interactions with her is to display love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control" - if only we could follow this verse, yet our thoughts often seem even weaker than our flesh, falling for easy judgments. I found this particularly difficult during the pandemic, when people's actions and words were often so painful to let go of. This verse certainly deserves daily repetition to keep at the forefront in all our interactions.
Thank you so much for sharing this! This week I witnessed something I thought I'd never see at Chick-fil-A: they had security throw out a young tattooed man who was sitting down eating a full meal with dessert and all. He appeared to have CP, flailing around one table over from me as he ate, making people nervous. I went to the desk and asked why he was being thrown out and who was having a paying customer thrown out? Another customer also said how can you throw out a paying customer? They proudly let everyone know they are a Christian organization and are usually careful to be so kind to all customers that I couldn't believe what they'd done. The manager looked very young and unable to stand up to peer pressure -- a weak person who said not a word as the disabled man was searched outside and then let go, his food in to go bags. It seems the young kids don't realize this is illegal and they are opening up the company for lawsuits.
Thanks for sharing your story Daniel. "The absolute best thing I can do in my interactions with her is to display love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control" - if only we could follow this verse, yet our thoughts often seem even weaker than our flesh, falling for easy judgments. I found this particularly difficult during the pandemic, when people's actions and words were often so painful to let go of. This verse certainly deserves daily repetition to keep at the forefront in all our interactions.
Thank you so much for sharing this! This week I witnessed something I thought I'd never see at Chick-fil-A: they had security throw out a young tattooed man who was sitting down eating a full meal with dessert and all. He appeared to have CP, flailing around one table over from me as he ate, making people nervous. I went to the desk and asked why he was being thrown out and who was having a paying customer thrown out? Another customer also said how can you throw out a paying customer? They proudly let everyone know they are a Christian organization and are usually careful to be so kind to all customers that I couldn't believe what they'd done. The manager looked very young and unable to stand up to peer pressure -- a weak person who said not a word as the disabled man was searched outside and then let go, his food in to go bags. It seems the young kids don't realize this is illegal and they are opening up the company for lawsuits.