GARBAGE IN THE SALAD
One day as a mother was scraping and peeling vegetables for a salad, her daughter came to ask her permission to go to an amusement center that had a bad reputation. In defending herself, the daughter admitted that it was a questionable place, but “all the other girls were going.” As the teenager pleaded to go, she suddenly saw her mother pick up a handful of discarded vegetable peelings and toss them into the salad. Startled, she cried, “Mother, you are putting garbage into the salad.” Her mother replied, “Yes, I know; but I thought that if you did not mind garbage in your mind and heart, you certainly wouldn’t mind a little garbage in your stomach. “Thoughtfully, the girl removed the offending material from the salad, and with a brief, “Thank You” to her mother she went to tell her friends that she would not be going with them. If you have spiritual indigestion and a poor testimony, maybe…
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