Life Lesson

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

The Car Salesman's Story

Jesus had only one face. When we show different sides of ourselves to different people, we become two-faced at the very least. When we lack integrity, we find ourselves being several people, depending on the circumstance. We subdivide our lives and justify our differing value systems based on the context. Our character becomes a product to be sold. We become personality salesmen rather than people of substance.

Once Kim was considering buying a red car. It was amazing how quickly the salesman began to share with us his story of how his wife was at first apprehensive when he bought her a red car, but overnight she came to love it. Kim, in her unflappable way, looked at him and said, “If I was considering a blue car, would it have been a blue car your wife had come to love?” (p. 72)

--From Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul by Erwin Raphael McManus