Saturday, March 1, 2008

Can't Give What You Don't Have

There was a story told that when Berlin was being divided into East Berlin, controlled by the Communists, and West Berlin part of the free world, a group of East Berliners dumped a whole truckload of garbage on the west side. The people from West Berlin thought they'd pick up all the garbage, put it on a truck, and dump it back on the east side. Then they decided that wasn't the way to handle it. Instead, they filled a dump truck with canned goods and other nonperishable food items went over to the east side and stacked them neatly, and put a sign beside it. The sign read, "Each gives what each has to give."

It is true, you can only give "fruit" to others when you are living a fruitful live inwardly....