Subject: [Fwd: Re: [ZION] Babylon vs. Zion (The grocers cat)]
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 07:22:03 -0700
From: Doug McGee <mcgee@mail.kdcol.com>
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Subject: Re: [ZION] Babylon vs. Zion (The grocers cat)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 00:01:08 -0800
From: hcurtis2@ix.netcom.com (Holly)
Reply-To: zion@sims.net
To: zion@sims.net

Michael,

I really liked this story.  I have been pondering these things a lot lately.
Thank you,

Holly

Michael George wrote on 3/1/96:
>
>This is a question that plagues me. I think the answer centers on where
>one's heart is and how one goes about one's business. Consider the following
>story from President Harold B. Lee's book, Decisions for Successful Living:
>
>"A certain woman found it necessary to dispose of her cat because she was
>leaving the community. She was concerned about seeing that it found a good
>home. Her small nephew was sent forth with the cat in his arms, and the idea
>that he carried with him was that poor kitty needed a home. No one was moved
>to compassion, so he returned sorrowfully with the cat.
>
>The older brother took the cat and strode forth confidently, calling at the
>nearby grocery store where the small boy had received his first refusal. He
>felt that this fine cat was not an object of pity but a useful animal. He
>reminded the grocer that just a few days before, a package had been returned
>to the store because it had been damaged by mice. It was apparent that the
>grocer needed to get rid of the mice because they were costing him plenty of
>damage to his stock. The cat would soon pay for itself. The cat stayed, and
>the boy walked from the grocery store with a dollar in his pocket, not
>because he sensed the need of a dollar for himself, but because he sensed
>the grocer's need for a good cat."
>
>When we are engaged in our chosen professions, are we constantly thinking of
>the "grocer's need" or our need. If, in the process of satisfying the
>grocer's need, we also make a dollar for ourselves, then, I believe our
>hearts are in the right place and we have no need to fear being "rich."
>(Remember the rich man trying to get that camel through the eye of a
>needle!) What the scripture terms as "rich" is a state of mind more than how
>much dough you have. "Rich" people tend to be self-absorbed, avaricious,
>even vicious. I know people that have lots of money that are by no means
>"rich" in the biblical sense.
>
>Again, from Pres. Lee: "When you can lose yourselves in the unselfish
>service to others, you will unconsciously forget your own wants and they
>will be supplied most likely because of the reciprocal service or patronage
>of those whom you have thus served."
>
>What goes around, comes around.
>
>Anyway, that's what I think...
>
>Michael George
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>What some people mistake for the high cost of living
>is really the cost of high living.
>...Don't worry...Be happy.../-----/
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