By Dave Eden, Eden Toons
“One very hot day during the month of July a lion and a boar went to a pool of water for a drink. ‘Step aside,’ said the boar to the lion, ‘I was here first.’
“‘I showed you where to find the water,’ the lion replied angrily. ‘I should be the first to drink.’ Swiftly the disagreement escalated from a verbal confrontation and the two started to attack each other with ferocity.
“A few minutes later, stopping to catch their breath, they both saw a band of vultures soaring round and round above them, waiting for one of them to be killed. The sight so sobered them that they quickly made peace, saying, ‘If we continue to fight, the only winner will be the vultures.’
“The calling of my pastoral office, as well as Christ’s command to be a peacemaker, moves me to issue a warning. If we continue to fight as we have been, the only winner will be the vultures.”
-Rev. Mark Creech
