Oh how I used to enjoy doing business with service providers who would pull out their service menu; offer the option to order a main course item along with my choice of accompanying side order, at no extra charge and to top it all I had the time to decide and disclaimers were short, simple and satisfactory.
Nowadays everything thing comes slapped with a fine and a one size fits all take or leave kind of service that patrons are expected to uphold in some lopsided loyalty and feel eternally grateful to be at the mercy of making selections from their list of preset bundles.
These ‘Goliaths’ are so profit over service providing-motivated and inclined, that how they raid and trample on customers ‘pearls and treasures’ is becoming the 'way we do things'. And it seems all good. Not for long! There’s a time for making huge profits and a time to be bankrupted…a time for mark ups and a time for mark downs’ a time for service providers to rule and a time for customers to be in charge… for I consider that the warnings biblical references render to declare what happens to oppressors is not hot air.
All I can do is not set my heart on riches that I will obviously leave behind when I head out to the land of ‘eternal darkness’; remain conscious to put my heart where my treasure is while at the same time maintaining mindfulness to “not throw my pearls in front of pigs or give what is holy to dogs: Matthew 7:6; and remember that the world and everything in it belong to God; and, as Proverbs indicates in chapter 23:4,5 “be wise enough to not to wear yourself trying to get rich. Your money can be gone in a flash, as if it had grown wings and flown away like an eagle”…yauwch…
Then what!
Ecclesiastes 12:14 has an answer:
Nowadays everything thing comes slapped with a fine and a one size fits all take or leave kind of service that patrons are expected to uphold in some lopsided loyalty and feel eternally grateful to be at the mercy of making selections from their list of preset bundles.
These ‘Goliaths’ are so profit over service providing-motivated and inclined, that how they raid and trample on customers ‘pearls and treasures’ is becoming the 'way we do things'. And it seems all good. Not for long! There’s a time for making huge profits and a time to be bankrupted…a time for mark ups and a time for mark downs’ a time for service providers to rule and a time for customers to be in charge… for I consider that the warnings biblical references render to declare what happens to oppressors is not hot air.
All I can do is not set my heart on riches that I will obviously leave behind when I head out to the land of ‘eternal darkness’; remain conscious to put my heart where my treasure is while at the same time maintaining mindfulness to “not throw my pearls in front of pigs or give what is holy to dogs: Matthew 7:6; and remember that the world and everything in it belong to God; and, as Proverbs indicates in chapter 23:4,5 “be wise enough to not to wear yourself trying to get rich. Your money can be gone in a flash, as if it had grown wings and flown away like an eagle”…yauwch…
Then what!
Ecclesiastes 12:14 has an answer:
“God is going to take inot account everything we do, whether good or bad, even things done in secret”
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