August 24, 2009 07:34:14
Posted By The Write Editor
Relationships.
 
They are the driving force behind great acts of courage and daring as well as the most heinous crimes man can imagine. They bring out the best in us and challenge us to greater heights. They bring out the worst in us and dare us to violate our core values.
 
Sex. Power. Control. These are catalysts for forming and merging relationships. And then there’s love. We can’t help but dive into a relationship head first when we’re crazy in love.
 
Society runs on relationships—an economic stimulus no government can manipulate. Our country is strong when godly relationships surge. But when relationships are built on greed, mistrust, deception, our country suffers and stumbles.
 
A successful relationship, no matter if it’s business or personal, formal or familial, is built on one simple principle our mothers taught us when we were toddlers: To have a friend, be a friend.
 
Enough said.
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Categories: values, power, greed, Relationships, love, hate, society, government, economics
 
February 21, 2009 05:31:17
Posted By The Write Editor
Let’s just say Mom was nutrition conscious. My sister and I could never have a full can of soda while living at home. So every day after school we’d grab an ice cold soda from the fridge and share it. We had our choice of Shasta flavors: black cherry soda, root beer, lemon lime, cream, or cola.
But fair is fair. And to keep it that way and to keep peace, my sister and I devised a fairness system. One split the soda between two glasses, the other got to pick which glass to take.
A simple but workable system.
But to my way of thinking, systems were made to be subverted. Systems should serve the girl; the girl shouldn’t serve the system.
I was maniacally gleeful when we got home from school that first day after secretly revising the system. I knew my sister well enough to know that this would work 100% of the time.
“Hey, sis, while you change your clothes, I’ll split the soda, then you can pick. That okay with you?” I had to work to keep the stupid grin off my face. But you can be sure I was feeling it all the way down to my toes.
“Okay, I’ll be out in a couple minutes,” my unsuspecting sister said.
I peeked down the hallway to make sure she was in her room. I pulled out two glasses from the cabinet and a black cherry soda from the fridge. Into the glasses I poured the liquid refreshment. Into the left one, I poured about two-thirds of the soda. Into the right one I poured the remaining soda, then I added cold water to bring the level up. But I added just enough to raise it a smidgen more than the glass with pure soda.
As my sister returned to the kitchen, I plastered my most bored demeanor onto my freckled face. She put the glasses side by side and eyeballed them. And just as I knew she would, she took the one containing the added water—because she’d get more “soda” than I would.
I wanted to jump up and laugh in triumph, but I controlled myself. My performance was worthy of an Oscar! My system worked for years, and sister never suspected my complicity. Of course, she thought she was winning—every day.
My sister and I are in our fifties now. About ten years ago I figured it was “safe” to confess my sin to her.
            But tell me, which one of us was greedier?
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