Disney Devotionals Day 1

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 13:6‭-‬7 NIV

This was Tuesday's verse but I am blogging this in the wee hours of Wednesday morning as we have just arrived back from the parks at Disney World. I'm calling my blogs this week Disney Devotionals.

At a Disney park you see and meet and (quite literally) run into all kinds of people. For the most part, Disney vacationers are a happy bunch, eager to let others be and concentrate on what to do next (and on how not to get too hot). We easily chat with one another, making acquaintances of folks from all over the globe.

However, as it goes with any sort of large gathering, there are your opportunists...those vile wolves in sheep's clothing ready to take your spot in line or steal your belongings from the lockers. We ran into our first group of those this evening on the way back to our hotel at a very late hour.

We were standing in line along with a few dozen of our newest friends waiting to board the buses. And along comes this young man, Dougie Doolittle just for story-telling purposes, looking for an "in" for him and his friends. You see, the line was quite long and coming in at the end meant you would be waiting for the next bus. Well little Dougie decided he and his pals would jump the line. So they made up an illness and persuaded someone at the front of the line to let them in. We all groused a little but let it go.

As we arrived at our hotel, those same young men who supposedly were ill were running down the lane toward the cafeteria. Yes, running.

Now we could get angry. We could get revenge somehow. But this verse tells us what we must do. Love doesn't rejoice in those things but is patient and kind. We and the rest of those in line knew the truth. We just needed to stand back and watch the drama unfold, satisfied that what we did was honest.

I'm sure we will run into our friend Dougie more this week, or iterations of him all around the parks. Yet we will continue to do what's right because that is what love demands of us.