WHAT HAPPENED TO ME

Did you ever read the book entitled Tuesdays with Morrie? If you did, you hopefully have never forgotten it. It is about a little college professor named Morrie Schwartz who has been a favorite professor of a student, Mitch Albom. While Mitch is his student, he tries to teach him some ethics, some ways of thinking that lack the disease of selfishness in them. But Mitch is all about fame and money at any cost, and he doesn’t really pay much attention.

He becomes a sports writer and travels the world in the fast lane. Then one night, surfing the television channels, he chances upon Ted Koppel interviewing his old professor, now dying from Lou Gehrig’s disease. Mitch seeks out his old mentor and each Tuesday for the next several months pauses in his busy life to visit with the dying man. As they discuss the great questions of life each week he becomes increasingly aware that his old tutor, even as he is growing weaker, is still teaching, trying to lead him to take a close and honest look at himself.

One Tuesday, sportswriter-highly-successful-Mitch asks the question, “What happened to me?” And then he answers his own question, “The 80’s happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.”

It is so easy to do, the selling of honor and souls for a mess of pottage. Not intentionally. Actually signing a contract with a grinning devil looking on is not the way most people see themselves. But still it happens. A little lie here, a little lie there to others or self or God. A little shaving off of honesty, because dishonesty is more convenient – more profitable.

The sad truth is that anytime anyone lies to a friend or stranger love goes flying out the door or at the best it is injured some. Love and dishonesty do not go hand in hand. Dishonesty is a wound and love does not wound. Love heals. Dishonesty hurts. It is as simple as that.

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Looking back and looking forward ‘O Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You and praise Your Name... You have done marvelous things’ (Isaiah 25:1).