Chose Goodness
Every day we get emails offering to sell us a device which will give us free premium cable or present us with a verity of get-rich-quick schemes. Many fall victim to scams because of their greed or risk their reputation and honor trying to beat the system.
We are tempted to try to get something for nothing, to take what seems to be available for the taking or to get what we think we deserve. We reason that we are as good as anyone else and question why they should have things that we don't have.
When we take anything, goods or services, that belongs to someone else or to which we are not entitled, it is theft, pure and simple!
We have harmed the rightful owner and we have harmed ourselves as well. To poses a stolen item is to diminish it's value to equal the price we paid and in doing so diminish our worth to match it.
When we earn something, we appreciate it and value it. It increases out net worth, so to speak. There is satisfaction and pride in ownership because it is a result of our good efforts and industriousness. We can take pride in it and feel good about it.
Max Lucado, said, "I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one."
Chose Goodness ...
Don Plefka
02/01/03
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