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Key Bible Verse: Serve one another in love. (Galatians 5:13b). Bonus Reading: Galatians 5:13-26

One day, the airplane Stanley boarded had mechanical problems. Twice, the passengers had to deplane and wait in the terminal. By the second time they reboarded, some were visibly upset. One fellow complained to the stewardess, "I asked the people at the desk for an aisle seat."

She looked at his ticket and said, "No, that's a center seat."

"Well, I asked for an aisle seat," he fumed.

Stanley, sitting in the adjacent aisle seat, jumped up and said, "Here, you can have this one."

The fellow said angrily, "No, I don't want your seat." He took off his coat disgustedly, wadded it into a ball, threw it in the overhead luggage compartment, slammed the door shut and sat down in the middle seat. Stanley got up, opened the compartment, shook the wrinkles out of the man's coat, put it back neatly folded, shut the door and sat back down.

A few minutes later the coat's owner asked Stanley, "What do you do for a living?"

Stanley said, "I teach people how to live."

The man nodded remorsefully and said, "Start teaching."

"Me too!" said the fellow sitting by the window.

—Paul Faulkner in Making Things Right When Things Go Wrong

• Have you learned how to live? Name one area of your life where you've seen God change you-and praise Him

Thought to Apply: I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

—MOTHER TERESA (late Calcutta missionary)

Credits: Adapted from —Wednesday: Making Things Right When Things Go Wrong (Barbour, 1999)

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Jesus, open my eyes to the needs of Your hurting children. Stretch out my hands to touch them. ell.

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