Putt on the Beat

Can We Recover our Personal

Allegiance to Integrity??

Is it possible for our world of the 21st century to have people in high (and low) places who are dedicated to living as honestly as they possibly can?

Perhaps not. It may be that we humans of the 2020's have immersed ourselves so deeply into ",alomg money" that we have lost contact with our better selves.

We are not at all surprised when some well-known person is revealed to be a pedophile, or someone just as self-centered. The pedophiles must make enough to pay for his or her self-self-destructive habitts; and they define their self-worth is dollars and cents.

But we have not entirely forgotten the value of goodness in good people. For every once a while, the few there are stand up to be noticed and applauded. And we do, praise them that is. It remains likely, however, that we continue to wonder about them: Why in the world do they waste time living the good life when they could be adding money to their wealth?

Personally, I believe we can recocer, turn back the clock so to speak, and once again have most of us claiming that \the truly good life is the best of all possible lives.

In addition, the basic values of our Judeo-Christian faiths, we still praise those values wjocjt affirm that loving God and others as the finest existence for us humans.

Our colleges and universities must lead the way toward a restoration of emphasis upon living out the basic values that make for decency, justice and equality among is==the aebest values we can ever know/

Fortunately, we have models for our recovery, which is why Abraham Lincoln remains our #1 example of thehe ideal president. He spoke bluntly, but honestly.

Of course, Abraham Lincoln was not perfect, just as we individually are not. But he had good in him

So do we!