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A Moron?, by Steve Higginbotham
The blog title read, "Moron turns in $140,000.00." What this title
references is the news story that broke last month. Eli Estrada, a 40
year-old Palm Beach resident found a bag containing $140,000.00 in
unmarked $20.00 bills.
Mr. Estrada certainly could have used the money. About six months ago,
he opened a landscaping and artificial-grass business and is in debt;
he says his child support payments are tough to make; and he supports
his mother, who moved in with him last year after she lost her house to
a fumbled refinancing plan. Yet, Mr. Estrada went straight to the
police and turned in all $140,000.00.
Apparently a Brinks armored truck somehow lost the money. Brinks
rewarded Mr. Estrada for his good deed by giving him $2,000.00.
What would you do if you found money?
So now, was Mr. Estrada a really a "moron"? Only if one views such
values as honesty, integrity, and the "golden rule" as foolish. But
what about the cheap reward that was offered? Some on this blog said
that if they knew the reward for turning in the money would have been
so small, they would have kept it. But do we have to be financially
rewarded for doing the right thing? Are our values so degraded that we
feel we deserve a "reward" for doing what we're supposed to do?
A moron? Hardly. Here's a man who has demonstrated that he had
sufficient intelligence to know that some things are more valuable than
money ... things like integrity, honesty, and doing the right thing.
Thank you, Mr. Estrada, for your example. May your tribe increase!
Now then, truthfully, what would you do if you found money? Give it
some thought.
But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
Redeem me, and be gracious to me (Psalm 26:11 NASB).
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(c) 2008 Steve Higginbotham <shigg@glasgow-ky.com>
RELATED LINKS:
* Holing On To Integrity
http://www.heartlight.org/hope/hope_990623_integrity.html
* Credibility
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200009/20000905_credibility.html
* Man finds $140,000, then his conscience
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-money10apr10,1,5471653.story
* MERCeMAIL
http://www.glasgow-coc.org/mercemail_2006.htm
This article can be found on the web at:
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200804/20080415_moron.html
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