Scrooge and his transformation came into my mind this week when I received a picture of a boy kneeling beside his bed praying with his dog beside him with his paws together appearing to pray as well. This picture was kind of “the straw that broke the camel’s back”. What kind twisted sicko of an individual have I become that people now send me pictures of newborns, cute babies, kids in dance recital costumes, kids and dogs praying?

What kind of warped monster have I become that people send me these types of pictures? When did I slip over the line from a focused, self centered business person into Scrooge’s delusional world of Marley’s ghost “Mankind is My Business!”

I need to get my focus off the ideals behind the parable of the Good Samaritan or the golden rule and get the spotlight back where it should be – ME. What have I got? What do I want? Obviously I need to join one of our large, profitable, money machine local churches and concentrate on what is important – the almighty dollar.

None of this: “thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor and to the needy in thy land” or “Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right” or “What shall it profit a man if he shall own the whole world and lose his own soul”? Next thing you know it will be: “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another”.

Live the golden rule of treating others as you want to be treated?

BAH! HUMBUG!

In Abbotsford it is all about ME! ME! ME! – after all “He who has the gold rules”.