"Usually when you go the extra mile, you get a gold star. I got sent to the Principle's office."
Ever find yourself buried under a mountain of paperwork in your office, and then wish someone would magically appear to help you?
A Con-Way Freight driver was delivering a file cabinet to a Principle's secretary at a new school. The delivery man felt sorry for the woman and the huge mess of paperwork amidst her desk and proceeded to help get her office organized with the new file cabinet. This true story is in a Con-Way Freight ad to reach more customers.
A recurring theme that's been developing lately within the news, even in my blog post last week, is the concept of putting others before ourselves. This past weekend I watched the film Into The White, a true story of 3 German Soldiers who's plane went down during World War 2. In order for them to survive the harsh Norwegian winter in the wild, they find themselves bunkered up in a Norwegian cabin with two British Soldiers, whose plane was also shot down.
Upon crossing paths with each other at first, it is obvious that things don't start off well between these enemies. Aside from who gets to sleep in the bunks and who doesn't, and who's prisoner is who's, things dramatically change when one of the German Soldier's wound becomes worst. What I also found interesting in this story was how things drastically changed because of mutual need. And when this mutual need for each other takes place, an unlikely friendship develops between these men. Upon being rescued by Norwegian soldiers, the German Officers were placed in a Canadien Prisoner of War camp until the end of the war.
In 1977, one of the British soldier's contacted the lone surviving German Officer of that epic tale of survival. The two met in Munich and shared a few stories together.
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is." - Hans Urs von Balthasar, a Swiss Theologian
You can watch this great film of survival and unity on Netflix.
Ever find yourself buried under a mountain of paperwork in your office, and then wish someone would magically appear to help you?
A Con-Way Freight driver was delivering a file cabinet to a Principle's secretary at a new school. The delivery man felt sorry for the woman and the huge mess of paperwork amidst her desk and proceeded to help get her office organized with the new file cabinet. This true story is in a Con-Way Freight ad to reach more customers.
A recurring theme that's been developing lately within the news, even in my blog post last week, is the concept of putting others before ourselves. This past weekend I watched the film Into The White, a true story of 3 German Soldiers who's plane went down during World War 2. In order for them to survive the harsh Norwegian winter in the wild, they find themselves bunkered up in a Norwegian cabin with two British Soldiers, whose plane was also shot down.
Upon crossing paths with each other at first, it is obvious that things don't start off well between these enemies. Aside from who gets to sleep in the bunks and who doesn't, and who's prisoner is who's, things dramatically change when one of the German Soldier's wound becomes worst. What I also found interesting in this story was how things drastically changed because of mutual need. And when this mutual need for each other takes place, an unlikely friendship develops between these men. Upon being rescued by Norwegian soldiers, the German Officers were placed in a Canadien Prisoner of War camp until the end of the war.
In 1977, one of the British soldier's contacted the lone surviving German Officer of that epic tale of survival. The two met in Munich and shared a few stories together.
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is." - Hans Urs von Balthasar, a Swiss Theologian
You can watch this great film of survival and unity on Netflix.
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