Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Two important lessons, both gleaned from two different grocery stores. And extracted from my cellphone. Beneath each photo, the lesson.
Think of it as the CFLM — the Cholesterol and Fat Liberation Movement.
Instead of saying cholesterol-free and fat-free in Spanish, it actually says: cholesterol liberates and fat liberates. 😯
Hence, the lesson caption above.
Alternate lesson: 1b. Have someone knowledgeable edit your translation!
OK, here’s the headline: NY store owner gives would-be thief $40 and bread.
I read that and thought that sounded so Christian. And uplifting.
So I clicked to read the story, which I excerpt below.
| A rifle-toting convenience store owner said he decided to show mercy on a would-be robber after seeing the man collapse into tears and claim he was only committing the crime to support his starving family.
The Long Island store owner provided the bat-wielding man with $40 and a loaf of bread and made him promise never to rob again. |
Wow! Isn’t that great! (I really do need to install a thumbs-up emoticon on this blog.)
That sure beats a story I read (yesterday, I think) of a shop owner on trial for murder for repeatedly shooting an unarmed teenage wannabe robber. Anyway, I kept on reading.
| “This was a grown man, crying like a baby,” Mohammad Sohail, owner of the Shirley Express convenience store…. |
Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrch! went my thought wheels. That sounds like a Muslim’s name!
| Sohail, who moved to the United States from Pakistan about 20 years ago, said he was getting ready to close his store shortly after midnight on May 21 when the man in his 40s entered with a bat in his hand. Sohail said he tried to stall for a moment and then grabbed a rifle he keeps behind the counter and ordered the assailant to drop the bat.
The would-be thief dropped to his knees and begged for forgiveness, Sohail said. “He started crying that he was out of work and was trying to feed his hungry family,” he said. “I felt bad for him. I mean, this wasn’t some kid.” He said he tossed $40 to the man, who then stood up and told Sohail he was inspired by the act of mercy and wanted to become a fellow Muslim. Sohail said he led the man in a profession of Muslim faith and the two ended up shaking hands. |
Hmmmmm. So what do you make of that, huh?
It’s a great, heart-warming story.
Now I hope the two men eventually choose to follow Jesus instead.
And I hope it doesn’t turn out to be an embellished tale or even a made-up one.
Time to do some armchair quarterbacking!
By way of introduction, here’s part of the story as reported by The Oregonian:
| When times are tight and people are hungry, any kind of waste — even the deep-sixing of a truckload of junk food — is taboo.
That may explain why no one seems to want to take the blame for sending 2,000 cases of snack cakes to the landfill after a Little Debbie truck overturned on Oregon 217 late Monday. |
Read the full story here: Oregon 217 crash sparks debate over wasted Little Debbie cakes
The Oregon Food Bank wanted that food.
So if the decision had been yours, what would have been done with that dumped treasure?
Oh, and while you’re at the article, be sure to read the comments — the comedians were out in force. 🙄
And speaking of comedians, here’s another wreck related story. Read it all
Here’s what God said to Moses from the burning bush:
Today’s Thought: When God speaks to you from a burning bush, don’t throw water balloons!
I understand that thread finally locked up over at WorldMagBlog.
Perhaps this will work as a substitute for it.
Here are the rules:
Why loll as the starting word? Because that’s the last word used at WorldMagBlog. 🙂
Rule Update: Rearranging the order of existing letters does not constitute changing a letter.
Name Update: This is now Cyberian Scramble, but I’ll leave the post title the same.
Date/Time Update: This post was originally published on June 1 (2009) at 8:30 am Pacific. These updates are June 5 at 8:11 am Pacific.
It’s June, the very first day thereof!
June — a month with lots of weddings and, presumably, lots of kissing going on.
The sun was rising this morning when I went out to feed the cats, let the hens out, and unchain the dog.
“Kissed by the Rising Sun,” I thought, “makes a good title for a blog post of some photos.”
So I went back in for my little Kodak Easy Share CX7330 digital camera.
Here is my first selection:
You already know the news:
| Another usher came in and told the congregation to remain seated, then escorted Tiller’s wife, Jeanne, out. “When she got to the back doors, we heard her scream, and so we knew something bad had happened….” |
Oh the pain that woman must have felt…and continues to feel! May she find in Christ the comfort and peace and healing she needs. And the power and will to forgive.
She is suffering because of someone else’s choice. Someone was pro-choice…and made the choice to murder someone who surely preferred to live. And the victim wasn’t consulted about that preference.
OK, the above news excerpt was at the end of page two of the story. Here’s how the story begins:
| George R. Tiller, the nation’s most prominent provider of controversial late-term abortions, was shot and killed yesterday in the lobby of his Lutheran church in Wichita, where he was serving as an usher.
[…] Tiller, 67, had performed abortions since the 1970s. He ran the Women’s Health Care Services clinic, one of three in the nation to perform abortions after the point when a fetus is considered able to survive outside the womb. |
So Mr. Tiller slaughtered (butchered, if you will) people for some thirty years…maybe longer. If he averaged only one such murder a day, that’s roughly 11,000 over a lengthy career.
I wonder how many he had scheduled for tomorrow.
And I wonder if any of those women will change their plans as a result of Mr. Tiller’s killing.
And I wonder what the abortion doctor learned at the judgment seat of Christ.
What he did in the practice of his evil is abominable.
What was done to him today by his killer is also evil and abominable.
How God must grieve!
Will God’s people also grieve?
If so, for whom? And what about?
Now, may the God of grace and truth and holiness find able-bodied men and women through whom to live out those attributes.
News Source: Late-Term Abortion Provider George Tiller Killed in Wichita Church