Wednesday, March 17, 2010

truce-breakers & promise-keepers

We have not kept our word.

 

There are agreements in every relationship.

Sometimes they are clearly stated and many

Times they are not.

 

By me having a permit to use the roads in our

Town I am agreeing to follow the rules of the

Road….yet how often do I forget as I speed to

Work trying to make up time for a late start.

 

We go to schools at different stages in our lives

To learn first the basic rules of communicating,

(reading, writing and speaking) then we learn the

Rules of fair trading and calculating (adding, etc)

 

I will never forget my early years in arithmetic.

When I could not get the concepts, my teacher used

The words TAKE AWAY to help me understand

The minus sign….which brings me to freedoms.

 

We often forget that the freedoms we enjoy

In our communities are based on our

Agreement to follow the rules.

 

Sports can be a good metaphor or picture

Of life in general. Whenever there is a rule

Broken there is a penalty.

 

Rules are broken sometimes without intention.

At other times there is full intention. Whatever

The reason the penalty is due.

 

Our society is set up so that

We often loose our freedom as a penalty

For breaking a rule. Breaking the rule is

Really not sticking to the agreement.

WE DID NOT KEEP OUR WORD.

 

So….what's the big deal?

 

Well, why didn't I keep my end of the bargain?

Why didn't I keep my word?

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