If “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” doesn’t speak to you, what about noblesse oblige, the almost forgotten act of those who have, seeing to the welfare of those who have not. It’s associated with the nobility, but at one time so was money. Today, those who have the most money seem to be the least noble.
“I heard the news today…oh boy.” It only gets grimmer, it seems.
The incredible, the obscene amounts of money a teeny percentage of the people of the world have and control. Many of those same people living in fear they won’t get more or will lose what they have...some are lying, cheating, stealing to hold onto what they have AND get still more.
Clearly, the hard part for me is to sit not in judgment of those rich folk, to waste not my hard-earned peace on righteous indignation...which only leads to a feeling of moral superiority, the camouflage of the dishonest wannabe. And it doesn’t matter what it is I wannabe...rich, so I can show “them” how they should act; Mother Teresa-like, so people will see how poor, done right, is enviable...makes no never mind, it is dishonest. Which is, of course, what I’m looking down my nose at in the first place...dishonest other people.
Peace, be still.
Thank you.
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