I have a confession to make. I just can't live a lie.... September 17th was a day of service at church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints). Brown paper bags were passed out to all the members, we were to pass them out to our neighbors. Each bag had a letter on it explaining that we were doing a drive for the Thurston County food bank. The letter asked that people fill the bags with food and leave them on their porch on the 17th and we will pick them up. Those bags sat on our table screaming to be delivered for 2 weeks, yet for some reason we couldn't get them passed out. Doesn't seem like a big deal handing someone a bag and asking if they could help the needy in our area, but for some reason I just couldn't do it, either I was too tired, busy, or caught up in other areas of my life.
Here comes the dishonest part. Friday night, when I realized the bags hadn't been delivered, rather than bug my neighbors, I filled them with food from our cupboards. Saturday morning I delivered the bags to the church, leading people to believe I had done my part and collected food from my neighbors. It's not exactly a BAD thing, because the people did get the food, but how much more would they have gotten if I had delivered the bags AND donated the food I did? In the Good, better best scenaria I would say my actions were marginally good at best, but at least I did it.
Part of repenting is confessing your sins, so that's what I am doing. Next year I plan on doing better.
The bright side of this is that it was pouring down rain on saturday and I got soaked just taking the bags to the car and then in to the church, so had I actually passed the bags out picking up the wet bags might have been a miserable experience. I also ended up getting called in to work, so I was really in a hurry and having the bags already filled on my kitchen floor expideted the whole process. I guess everything happens for a reason. I promise, next year I will do better!
PS. if you would like more information on the church go to Mormon.org and check it out! My profile is http://mormon.org/me/3QD5?
Here comes the dishonest part. Friday night, when I realized the bags hadn't been delivered, rather than bug my neighbors, I filled them with food from our cupboards. Saturday morning I delivered the bags to the church, leading people to believe I had done my part and collected food from my neighbors. It's not exactly a BAD thing, because the people did get the food, but how much more would they have gotten if I had delivered the bags AND donated the food I did? In the Good, better best scenaria I would say my actions were marginally good at best, but at least I did it.
Part of repenting is confessing your sins, so that's what I am doing. Next year I plan on doing better.
The bright side of this is that it was pouring down rain on saturday and I got soaked just taking the bags to the car and then in to the church, so had I actually passed the bags out picking up the wet bags might have been a miserable experience. I also ended up getting called in to work, so I was really in a hurry and having the bags already filled on my kitchen floor expideted the whole process. I guess everything happens for a reason. I promise, next year I will do better!
PS. if you would like more information on the church go to Mormon.org and check it out! My profile is http://mormon.org/me/3QD5?
