On The Level. Honesty Is Best. 1/2/2016

Good Morning,

Today is one of those days that I do not have often enough. Let me describe it for a second. It's cold outside, my view is a frozen scene of snow, and a fire is crackling in the in the fireplace. I had time to make a breakfast of baked oatmeal and dried cherries, and I am drinking a cup of Door County Hot Buttered Rum Coffee. Our Springer Spaniel Gibbs is laying across my feet. It doesn't get much better than that.

I want to take a minute to challenge us all to start out 2016 with something we can all do better at. Honesty is not a four letter word to never be used. As the picture depicts above, we are to be true and on the level in all of our dealings, big or small.  Everyone has a "junk drawer" at home. Go through it and look at the pencils or pens you have in there. How many of them belong to your place of work and some how they kidnapped you and took you home? How about the ones that were labeled "take one"? Did they actually populate with the other pencils or pens and create twins? I wonder what the gestation period is for a pencil?

Are you one who goes grocery shopping and has to taste a little of all the fresh foods you will purchase? That bologna tasted the same today as it did last week? Do you gain weight just be walking through the grocery department?

Folks, stealing is stealing. Eventually little things lead us to believe bigger things are ok to do. An extra five minutes at your coffee break does not belong to you. You were paid to work not steal minutes from your employer. Do you have the kids answer the telephone and tell people you are not home, when you are actually sitting there watching I love Lucy reruns? Lying is lying and the truth is not told.

Many of us have kids or grandchildren that watch everything we do and when we catch them stealing or lying, we lower the boom like an atomic bomb and can't believe their sinful behavior. They were just doing what they were taught by example. Stick the bomb under your own seat first.

Psalms 119:163 I hate and abhor lying: but your law do I love.

 

Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight

 

Luke 16:10
He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.

 

Leviticus 19:10   

'You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

 

Honesty in all we do is the best policy. Give people what they pay for. Pay for what you take.

God Bless,

Marty