Lies

We all like to think of ourselves as honest citizens, even when we tell lies.  We stand in the express line with too many items, play hooky from work, lie about our weight or lie to give our kids an advantage.  We might tell lies in some conditions but not in others-you make a choice.  Telling lies can put you on a slippery slope-minor transgressions can snowball into cataclysmic ones.  Did you know that when people sign an ethics pledge at the beginning rather than the end of tax forms or job applications, they are less likely to lie or be dishonest?  Most of us need to see ourselves in a positive light.  Novelist Wallace Stegner said; “It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by.”  De Hart Plumbing, serving Manhattan Kansas, Junction City Kansas and Wamego Kansas.