Friday, March 8, 2013

WHAT IF?

[The following is a reprint of my blog of August 5, 2009.]

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

What if those words, found at the base of the Statue of Liberty, represented our real immigration policy?

What if the primary purpose of business was service to and for the benefit of the customer instead of profit to and for the benefit of the owner/stockholders?

What if the peoples of the world knew…truly knew…that bad business gets you bad business?

What if you suspected that “give until you hurt or you will hurt until you give” is a fact of life?

What if “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” were practiced by all, always and all ways?

What if you knew you really could change the world for the better by being just a little more giving each day?

What if the person who had stolen your good name, got you fired from your job, and ran away with your spouse needed your blessing to die at peace…and you knew God was listening, loving you the same no matter what your choice?

What then?

Thank You.

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