Josephs Toolbox

Lets begin with a quote from Harvey H. Potthoff, “Some persons endeavor to follow the path of respectable uninvolvement. Just as they would not willfully injure anyone, neither would they inconvenience themselves to help anyone”.

Other persons follow the consuming way of life. Their purpose is to take out of life all they can – for their own gratification. Power, position, prestige, pleasure and profit become the great goals of life. Basic decisions are made in light of these goals. The crises of life and the major responsibilities of life are approached in the light of these values. The good life is regarded as the consuming life.

More than two hundred years ago Isaac Watts described life in his poem “Insignificant Existence”:

There are a number of us who creep
Into this world, to eat and sleep;

And know no reason why we’re born.
But only to consume the corn.

Devour the cattle, fowl and fish,
And leave behind an empty dish.

So the question that I have to ask today is "If I silently and anonymously walk through life, do I accept responsibility for its decline"?