^{Today’s Thought “A Better Plan” G. Ward}

^{Proverbs 16}

²⁴ Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Johnny is a 19-year-old young man with Down’s Syndrome and while employed at a grocery store, there was insistence from management that every employee attend a customer service seminar. They were consumed in improving their customer relations and whereas Johnny, in what he perceived was an insignificant position as a bag boy would attend this session reluctantly, he’d be challenged (delightfully) to do his best to encourage every customer he’d encounter. Johnny would go home thereafter, sharing with his parents how thrilled he was, correlating with his parents onto a way to which he could embody this encouragement and devised cutting small scripts of varied passages from the Word of God to hand to each customer and then wish them a wonderful day. The store had numerous self-checkouts, but their customer base would forsake speed of checkout to have an encounter with Johnny. We’re given the most excellent message of reconciliation and it assuredly remains the highest encouragement any can receive. May you find the Way (John 14:6) like Johnny did in allowing any to hear and see your surrender to our Lord and leave the wavering (temporal, i.e., politics, opinions, etc.) to the world (cf. 1 John 2:15-17).