Posted on 08/03/2012 6:00:41 AM PDT by xp38
When a Guelph, Ont., couple woke up last Friday, they found their digital camera and Xbox console in a plastic bag on the front porch. According to the attached letter, they’d been robbed the night before — and the thief had been having second thoughts.
“I compromised your feelings of safety in your own home,” read the anonymous letter, headlined “apology,” and addressed to the “family I have wronged.”
“I’ve been having a very tough time financially lately and I made the worst mistake of my life.”
The package included $50, apparently for repairs to a window screen. So they checked the back of the house, and found one of the screens had been ripped.
According to Guelph Police, the family believes they were walking their dog at the time of the burglary.
“They were surprised,” Sgt. Douglas Pflug said. “They didn’t know their home had been violated.”
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Yes, we need to pray for some food fortune to come to him (her?).
food fortune = good fortune
need more coffee
You did WHAT !!! Now you march right back over there, young man, and put that stuff back!
And you better pay for that window you broke!
—Polite and remorseful criminal—
I have a sign on my cube wall: Who am I, right now?
I put it there because I believe all of us are “what we are doing and thinking right now”. We can’t rest on past successes or mourn past failures. I’ve been everything in my life. I’ve even stolen things i the distant past. But my future depends on who I am “right now”. That is all I can change.
So, who was this guy when he stole the stuff? Who was he when he returned it. Who is he “right now”.
42 years ago there was a sign hanging on the wall in my machine shop class at school which read “You are no safer than your most foolish mistake”. I can’t remember how many times I have reread that sign in my mind in different situations.
Good people can be pushed by bad circumstances to do bad things, but a good person has a conscience that won’t let them stay on that path for long.
food fortune = good fortune
need more coffee
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Either way, it’s a good prayer.
I think he/she has made it right, and should be forgiven in recognition of a good repentance. I hope the police drop the case: to pursue it would be a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Ain’t that the truth. In one of my early strays from the right path I was in a department store (3D for those that remember it). I was maybe 7. I had lost a little gun that went with an action figure I had. They had the same figure in the store and the package was already open. I pilfered the gun. I couldn’t deal with it and no more than 4 aisles away I turned around and put it back. Felt terrible the rest of the day. Can only imagine what this person was feeling when he returned this stuff.
I suspect a relative
There is an old saying - “Virtue is it’s own reward”
Only when you start to act virtuously do you learn to know what that really means (and how good the ‘reward’ feels)
Someone going through the twelve step program, and serious about it to get cleaned up. Sound about right, Laz?
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