"No one will mind…" seems to be the mantra of our age. Except everyone minds—because they should.
I keep running into folks who have never heard the Golden Rule of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Not "never heard" figuratively but literally. When they're supposedly believers, the ignorance is even more startling.
I get it that people are exhausted on multiple levels. It's not a faux exhaustion either. But still, is the Golden Rule that much of a burden? That giant of a spine-annihilator?
If so, then don't even pretend to offer a service if the Golden Rule isn't backing it up.
As a recent high school graduate with a new-to-me car, I considered getting a super cool bumper sticker (or two) with a Christian message. Then, I thought about the possibilities of being a bad witness to other drivers and opted for a small, clear ichthus sticker to put on the small rear window of my 1978 Ford Pinto to remind me to drive courteously and carefully every time I looked in my rearview mirror. That worked.
After being treated badly (read "cheated") twice by a fellow church-goer whose business motto was "Integrity is our Business", I learned that people who have to advertise integrity probably don't have their own.
(Side note: most tattoos I see on people seem to be things missing from their lives that they wish they had but don't.)
"No one will mind…" seems to be the mantra of our age. Except everyone minds—because they should.
I keep running into folks who have never heard the Golden Rule of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Not "never heard" figuratively but literally. When they're supposedly believers, the ignorance is even more startling.
I get it that people are exhausted on multiple levels. It's not a faux exhaustion either. But still, is the Golden Rule that much of a burden? That giant of a spine-annihilator?
If so, then don't even pretend to offer a service if the Golden Rule isn't backing it up.
If only more Christians would get this message!
As a recent high school graduate with a new-to-me car, I considered getting a super cool bumper sticker (or two) with a Christian message. Then, I thought about the possibilities of being a bad witness to other drivers and opted for a small, clear ichthus sticker to put on the small rear window of my 1978 Ford Pinto to remind me to drive courteously and carefully every time I looked in my rearview mirror. That worked.
After being treated badly (read "cheated") twice by a fellow church-goer whose business motto was "Integrity is our Business", I learned that people who have to advertise integrity probably don't have their own.
(Side note: most tattoos I see on people seem to be things missing from their lives that they wish they had but don't.)
BTW - I would love to read that review....
Did he at least have Christmas decorations up???
He had a tree. We had brought a small one, but used our decorations on the tree he had there. We also had a few other things.