Recent events (Items I gathered from the WWW that are worth sharing)
The past events are so disheartening. We cried over an "accidental" fire, then we realised, that is, if we haven't before, that the "world" is unfair. Ultra rich people emptied(not really) their pockets without second thoughts for the restoration of Notre Dame while other nations still cry for help. There was a terrorist attack in Jerusalem, but it was overlooked.
Just recently, these events happened:
From Steve Martin
This one below wasn't overlooked. As of the time I posted this, the death toll is rising...290 and counting. The injured are not all accounted for.
From the New York Times
SRI LANKA ATTACKS
A warning went unheeded
(ALSO FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES)
Ten days before the bombings, a top Sri Lankan police official warned the security services that a radical Islamist group was planning suicide attacks against churches, but no action was taken against the group. It was unclear what other precautions, if any, the security agencies had taken in response to the threat warnings.
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The word is getting crazier and crazier. It's a mad, mad world. Someone said that the world has always been this way, and the reason we are terrorised is because we see the events on TV.
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I do not want to believe that. I still believe, as long as rapture hasn't happened yet, that the good outweighs the bad.
Yes, I know that there are still lots to be grateful for, like this one from Bruce Wright. Why should we focus on the negative? The company below received so much flak, but still went on spreading love(this happened months ago, but...):
Two years ago Chick-fil-A made national headlines when company president Dan Cathy spoke out in support of traditional marriage. Liberals and gays came unglued and launched massive protests against the restaurant chain. Several mayors spoke out saying they would not allow any more Chick-fil-As to be built in their cities.
They tried boycotting the Christian owned company, but that backfired. Instead, Chick-fil-A had a world record day with many locations selling out of food to the hundreds of thousands of supporters. Is it any surprise that the only news the liberal mainstream media has reported concerning Chick-fil-A has only been the negative?
Remember last week when the ice storm hit the south? The mainstream media showed footage of miles of cars stranded on the frozen interstates. Several national news broadcasts that I saw reported about school kids trapped on busses for almost 24 hours because of all of the ice and parents going frantic wondering where their kids were.
In all of the icy gloom and doom, I bet you didn’t hear about the heroic and generous actions of a Chick-fil-A along Highway 280 in Birmingham, Alabama, did you?
Mark Meadows, owner of the Chick-fil-A closed early the day of the storm and sent all of his employees home. However, the employees and Meadows soon discovered that they were not going to be able to get home with all of the stranded motorists stuck on the roads. Some of the cars near the restaurant had been stranded for up to 7 hours.
Meadows and his employees fired up the kitchen and began preparing chicken sandwiches as fast as they could. They prepared several hundred sandwiches and then Meadows and his staff headed out and began distributing the hot meals to the stranded motorists on both sides of Highway 280.
Some of the drivers tried to pay them for the sandwiches, but Meadows and his employees refused to take a single penny.
Audrey Pitt, manager of the Chick-fil-A, explained why: “This company is based on taking care of people and loving people before you’re worried about money or profit. We were just trying to follow the model that we’ve all worked under for so long and the model that we’ve come to love. There was really nothing else we could have done but try to help people any way we could.”
However, Meadows and Pitt were not through with their Good Samaritan efforts. They helped push cars off the roads, up inclines and whatever else they could do to help. Then they kept the restaurant open overnight so that stranded motorists could have a warm place to be. A number of motorists slept in booths or on the benches.
Then in the morning, they again fired up the kitchen and prepared chicken biscuits for their overnight guests and once again they refused to accept any payment. During that 24 hour period, this Chick-fil-A restaurant opened their kitchen, their doors and their hearts to hundreds of stranded motorists and they did so refusing to accept any payment. As one source put it, Meadows and his staff lived up to the words Jesus spoke in Matthew 25:35 which states:
“For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in…”
Their actions were truly generous and heroic as they also braved the frigid temperatures to hand out hundreds of hot meals to complete strangers. And I bet you never heard anything about this from the mainstream media.
Their liberal bias and intolerance would never allow them to report on a Christian company doing something so positive for so many.
We need to support this and other Christian companies that are trying to spread the Good News of the Gospel through their daily work.
Pass this along and bypass the media!
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Even if I am allergic to chicken, I chose to share the words above. I have LGBT family and friends, and I love them, but that is NOT the point. We should focus on the good that people do, and not the bad. I know it is easier said than done.
Is the world ending soon? The good thing about that, if, and only if we are prepared, we will go to a place where there are no more tears, wars, and all the negativity.
I still hope and pray that like in Nineveh, God would relent, especially if the world is not ending, but we could be left behind.
There is power in united prayer, whatever we believe in.
May the peace that only God can give reign in the hearts of humankind.
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Thanks for your time, dear readers.
