THE STEWARDSHIP OF NEIGHBORLINESS — TIMING IS EVERYTHING
A moving van was standing in front of a suburban home. The homeowners — husband and wife — were busy tidying up the front yard when a woman who lived at the other end of the block approached them. She smiled and said very sweetly, “Welcome to our neighborhood. Here is a fresh pie I have made to help welcome you to our street.” The couple looked back and forth at one another with a kind of awkward embarrassment. After a few nervous moments the wife spoke up. “I don’t know quite how to say this, but we’ve been living here for almost two years. You see, we’re not moving in, we’re moving away.” Adapted from Sunday Sermons.
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