PROSPERING WITH INTEGRITY

LIFE TO THE MAX: PROSPERING WITH INTEGRITY
By Fenton Moorhead

EXO. 20:15 "YOU SHALL NOT STEAL."

HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HAD SOMETHING STOLEN?

ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES IS ABOUT THE LADY WHO WAS WAITING FOR
A PLANE AT THE AIRPORT AND PURCHASED SOME COOKIES TO EAT.
SHE SAT DOWN TO READ A MAGAZINE AND EAT HER COOKIES.
SHE WAS AMAZED TO HEAR THE RUSTLING OF THE PACKAGE OF COOKIES ON
THE LITTLE TABLE NEXT TO HER SEAT AND SAW THAT THE MAN NEXT TO
HER WAS HELPING HIMSELF TO ONE OF HER COOKIES.
SHE THOUGHT TO HERSELF, "OF ALL THE NERVE!"
SHE QUICKLY REACHED OVER AND HELPED HERSELF TO ONE THE COOKIES,
AND MOVED THE PACKAGE IN HER DIRECTION.
SHE WAS FURTHER ASTOUNDED WHEN THE MAN REACHED OVER AND
STRETCHED HIS ARM TO REACH A COOKIE AND HELPED HIMSELF.
THIS WAS MORE THAN SHE COULD TAKE!
SHE QUICKLY TOOK THE LAST COOKIES AND THREW THE EMPTY PACKAGE
INTO THE NEARBY GARBAGE.
SHE WALKED BRISKLY AWAY AND WHEN SHE REACHED INTO HER PURSE FOR
HER AIRLINE TICKET, SHE DISCOVERED HER PACKAGE OF COOKIES.
SHE HAD BEEN HELPING HERSELF TO HIS COOKIES ALL ALONG!
IMAGINE HER EMBARRASSMENT!


A QUICK STRAW POLL:

PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU HAVE HAD THE FOLLOWING STOLEN:

1. MONEY

2. BICYCLE

3. CAR

4. HOME BROKEN INTO

IT WAS MORE THAN A FEW COOKIES!

YOU FELT VIOLATED, CONFUSED, (WHY?), AND ANGRY!

ONE MAN WHOSE HOME WAS REPEATEDLY BROKEN INTO PUT UP A SIGN,
"THIS PROPERTY IS PROTECTED BY A PIT BULL WITH AIDS."

ANOTHER STRAW POLL:

AT SOME TIME IN YOUR LIFE YOU TOOK SOMETHING THAT DID NOT BELON ...

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