| One day as a mother was scraping and peeling the vegetables for a salad her daughter came in to ask permission to go to a movie. On the defensive, the daughter explained it was a questionable show but all the girls were going - they didn't think it would hurt them.
As the girl talked, suddenly she saw her mother pick up a handful of scraps and throw them into the salad. In a startled voice she called: "Mother! You are putting the garbage in the salad!"
"Yes," her mother replied, "I know, but I thought that if you didn't mind garbage in your mind and heart, you certainly would not mind a little in your stomach."
Thoughtfully the girl picked the peelings from the salad and with a brief "thank you" to her mother, went to tell her friends she wouldn't be going with them to the show.
"But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man." (Matt. 15:18) |
