Bean's

One of my High School friends(thanks Nellie) put this on her blog and I think it is wonderful to remind us of how we need to be. I know it's how I would like to be! We all have bad days, and I guarantee, if I was in a grumpy mood and said something that I didn't really mean to the person I was saying it to, because I was having a bad day, I would love it if they just smiled at me. That would really make me stop being so grumpy and smile back!


One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!'
-This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets. The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so..... 'Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't.' Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!

We never really know why somebody is having a bad day, we don't know what is going on in their lives. But if we try to be more like Christ and love everyone no matter what they have done to us, all of us would be so much more happier.