Good People?

In life, we meet many different types of people. We meet funny, serious, obsessive, compassionate, mean, rude, happy, etc. Some of these people have a profound impact & others are more like passers by. The thing is that people are many times very good at hiding who they really are or pretending that they are a good person. There are many examples that we have seen strewn through the mass media.

One example we have all heard of is the catholic priests that abused their position to take advantage of & abuse children. Some of the top leaders of Enron were very generous to their church. The CEO of WorldCom taught Sunday School. From the outside all of the people above seemed to be good upstanding people & Christians. The fact is that they were not good people or good Christians. They used others to improve their own position & achieve their own goals with blatant disregard to how their actions would hurt others.

These type of people are not just the major ones we hear of in the media. There are people just like this all around & we as people attempting to be good people living a life of integrity & faith must be mindful. This does not mean that we need to be overly guarded & suspicious, but we also cannot turn a blind eye to things we see in others that set off red flags to us. As much as we may want to like someone, we are given our senses of right & wrong as gifts from our God who put them in our heart along with what our meaning is on this earth. So, please be mindful of the people you allow to be close to you, because you deserve to have people that truly LOVE you in your life & to be rid of those that aren't truly good people. Peace, LOVE, & Happiness to you all!!!

Bless You!
Thomas