How’s the Food?

            Someone sent me this a long time ago:

            A sign posted on the wall of an Army mess read: "Don't Waste Food -- Food will win the war."

            Beneath the sign someone had written: "That's fine, but how do we get the enemy to eat it?"

            It is easy to be a critic; it should be easy to be an encourager. Times can be tough in the Kingdom. Maybe Paul had tough times in mind when he wrote, “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing”(I Thess. 5:11.)

Seasoned with Salt

           When the great American composer, George Gershwin, passed away, a man who possessed more affection for Gershwin than he did musical ability decided to compose a musical elegy in Gershwin’s honor. Upon completion, he sought entertainer and composer Oscar Levant for an appraisal of his work.

            Eagerly, the neophyte played his piece for Levant, praying for Levant’s approval. He was disappointed.

            “I think it would have been better,” Levant told him, “if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.”

            I wonder if Paul had speech like this in mind when he wrote that Christians should fill their conversations with grace and “season them with salt.”

            Story source: Edmund Fuller