2020-07 The Right Spirit

The other day I was at my favorite burger place for lunch. As I was waiting for my order to come out, I listened to all the high school students who were also waiting for their food. After a couple of minutes I felt like I needed to sanitize my eardrums! The language was horrible! What was also surprising, is that it did not even seem to faze the students at all that there were adults and children all around that could hear every word. It reminded me of the following story.

In a city street a heavily-laden coal-cart was at a standstill. The driver was swearing and beating the poor horses unmercifully, but they could not start the wagon on its uphill course to its nearby destination. A crowd of people looked on. One of them said it was a downright shame, and left the scene. At last a little girl ran out and begged the man to stop, promising that she and the other children would get baskets and carry all the coal if he would only let the horses rest. The crowd laughed at her words, but were shamed into lending a hand themselves, and with one accord they pushed against the cart till the poor horses took heart and started easily up the grade.

Let us all do a little bit better, each and every day, to be a little bit more clean in our ways as a Scout.