How well are you wearing your sandwich sign?

Taken from a devotion material passed to us during the committee retreat and I personally believe its good to share good findings to all. Sit back and listen to the story.

A bridge near a town has broke down due to a storm and a few accidents had happened. The mayor of the town called up 3 men to him. Giving each of them a sandwich sign to wear, he told them, go stand in front of the bridge so that you can warn people that the bridge is down and they have to detour from the road. Keep warning them till I get people to repair the bridge. The 3 men immediately went on their way to the broken bridge.

All 3 men walked to a major crossroad to the bridge. The first men walked 100 yards away from the crossroadand stood there saying, my sign says "broken bridge" so I will stand at a fair distance so I can warn people ahead w. The 2nd man went a little nearer to the bridge and stood there. His sign read "reduce speed". He decided to stand not too far away from the 1st man so right after the warning that the bridge was broken, they will be told to slow down. And finally the 3rd man. He went on and stood near the crossroad that was heading towards the lane to the broken bridge. His sign read "right road only" with an arrow pointing towards the safe route.
Though the safe route was small and narrow, many were saved by this method.
But after hours, they grew lax in their task.
The first men decided to take a nap as he gotten sleepy. So he took of his sign and went aside to sleep. But a stone blocked his sign and it then read "bridge" instead of "broken" bridge.
The 2nd did not get sleepy, but persevered on. In fact, he grew conceited. The longer he stood with the warning, the more important he felt, and it added on when people pulled off to thank him for the job he is doing. As this went on, he thought he was more important then his sign, and presently took it off and stood beside it. but he stood a little to near the words and covered up the word "speed" making the sign read "reduce". Many thought it was a diet program he was advertising.
The 3rd was influenced by none of this. But he was concern about his message. It troubled him his message was so dogmatic and narrow. so he thought, people should be given a choice, who am I to tell people what is right or wrong? and so he changed the sign from "right road only" to "preferred road only" and later changed the word "preferred" to "suggested" It still didn't look right to him and he thought " people might feel offended with me telling them what to do or that they might not know something" and he continued and changed it to something else.
Finally, he came out with a new sign. " Right Road - 1 of 2 equally valid alternatives"
And so. The first man slept, 2nd stood and covered his sign, and the 3rd altered the message. One after another, the cars went into the river.

Now. lets say Christian walk is wearing a sandwich sign. How well have you worn it?

Some stories

Hey all, just yesterday I told you bout a site of making a difference... Here's a few stories (out of 200+ pages of stories) about how someone's life was touched thanks to another...

Today I was walking to my $60 voice lesson, with the money in my pocket. It fell, I didn't notice. (I'm 14, that's alot to me) A man picked it up and gave it to me so quickly that he couldn't even have considered keeping it for himself.It restored my faith in humanity. :] MLIG

Today, I was helping my papa get ready for a small cook-out in the back of his condominium complex. He saw a familiar elderly man, who lives by himself with his wife in a nursing home suffering with Alzheimers, sitting by himself at a nearby table. My papa invited him to join us and completely made the man's day. HisLifeIsG

Tonight, crying for the first time in 6 months,reading so many stories on MLIG has made me realize that I can have faith in people. I believe in love again. MLIG

Today I took slips of paper and wrote things like "Whoever picks this up, if you're ever feeling lonely or need somebody to talk to, there's someone you can call." I then included my number and have been placing them somewhere at each place I go. This site is the reason I finally got up the courage to be the kind person I once was again. Thanks everyone. Our lives are amazing, hopefully I'll help out someone else's.

Last night, I was lying in bed feeding my dog crackers and watching a movie. She looked up at me with the only smile I've ever seen on an animal, and the one I've been seeing for years. I know every time she looks at me she thanks me for saving her life that one night when I took her in from the woods. HLIG because of me.

The first week in July at the camp I attended I made many friends, one whom opened up to me and felt I was someone he could talk to. At the end of the camp, he came up to me and told me how much I helped him try to get through some of his issues and all the lessons I taught him. I love helping people this way, MLIG.

Today, a suicidal friend was being all gloom and doom. I couldn't take it and told them to be thankful for having a life to live! I was born with a heart/brain problem and could die any given day. After I told them that, something clicked in their mind. They couldn't understand how I could live like that. I told them "cause I don't have any other choice" They told me "you're strong". I told "you are too". I'm now helping them to learn to enjoy life again. Our Lives Are Good [and will be getting better!]

Yesterday, my college offered me $10,000 to take a gap year. Last week, I was going to be heading off to another year of studying my butt off next month but instead I'm going to be traveling the world to help kids in impoverished countries. MLIG

Today I delivered food to a local food bank. Homeless men helped us unload the food into the pantry. After unloading, I sat and talked with a homeless man. He told me that his whole life he's watched his dreams be crushed by the reality he wouldn't be able to accomplish them. With tears running down his face, he told me that by me sitting and listening with him and providing him with food meant so much to him. It really made me realize how much I have, and how GREAT my life truly is! mlig.

If you're wondering, MLIG stands for My Life Is Good/Great
=)

Working Together

At ICF, we not only meet for meetings, pray together and learn the word together... ouh and of course dinner and captain ball, but we also help each other.

When I say that, I refer to working together to achieve one goal. Team building and all that. Just yesterday a few of us were at SAO concourse painting in the heat (thank God for fans!) a nice big 3x1 banner, on the floor.

We worked from 4.30(ish)pm, till about 9.30.. and cleaned up and rested and waited for dinner till about 10.30... Yes, we ate at 10.30pm...

Now, despite the crazy hours and conditions, I can honestly say I enjoyed myself. Things like these, help us get to know each other better. Including how we work, how we talk, how we react, and even each other's compilation of lame jokes! =) Honestly it was great fun, as tiring as it was... Hey, we all had MCD at the end for a reward!

Attacking each other with paint


Working together


Editing, final touch ups


Out of proportion guitar =D


By 13th Intima Inti Christian Fellowship

So there's your glimpse of tha banner you shall be seeing soon.
It's for Beau Bristow LIVE in Inti. =) More info to come soon.