Thursday, July 19, 2018

BENJI Good morning! I’m Benji Riddle – Director of Youth Ministry at Central United Methodist. There is an old story that goes like this: Three burly biker fellows on huge roaring motorcycles pulled up to a truck stop restaurant where a truck driver, who happened to be small of stature, was perched on a stool quietly eating his lunch and enjoying a break from the days driving. As the three fellows came in, they saw him, decided to be mischievous and grabbed his food away from him and laughed in his face. The truck driver said nothing. He got up, paid for his food and walked out. One of the three bikers, unhappy that they hadn't succeeded in provoking the smaller trucker driver into a fight commented to the waitress: "Boy, he sure wasn't much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Well, I guess not." Then, looking out the window, she added, "I guess he's not much of a truck driver, either. He just ran over three motorcycles leaving the parking lot." Today, lets treat others as we want to be treated, with grace instead, not the destruction of property!