Walk The Walk

Deuteronomy 9:13-21 (NRSV)

Furthermore the LORD said to me, “I have seen that this people is indeed a stubborn people. Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous than they.”

So I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was ablaze; the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. Then I saw that you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God, by casting for yourselves an image of a calf; you had been quick to turn from the way that the LORD had commanded you. So I took hold of the two tablets and flung them from my two hands, smashing them before your eyes. Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the LORD by doing what was evil in his sight. For I was afraid that the anger that the LORD bore against you was so fierce that he would destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him, but I interceded also on behalf of Aaron at that same time. Then I took the sinful thing you had made, the calf, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was reduced to dust; and I threw the dust of it into the stream that runs down the mountain.

Today's Daily Office reading is about Moses and the people of Isreael. Yesterday, while making coffee, I reflected upon the great leaders of the Bible. Moses, not only wrote the Jewish laws, he lived by them. He lead by example. Moses also interceded on behalf of the people when they broke the law. I had that thought because I am so disenchanted with the leadership of a great historical organization: The United States Post Office. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf1B-tyagko or click on the title "Walk The Walk" for a direct link to the video.

I think it is wrong for the Postmaster General to receive a six figure bonus when USPS is operating in a deficit. How can that be justified? Mr. Potter has transformed from a humble letter carrier to another greedy corporate CEO. Many leaders have fallen morally. If I were the CEO of USPS under the same conditions as Mr. Potter, I'd set an example. I would not take a bonus unless we were making profits. I'd also make a new rule "No bonuses given when USPS is operating in a deficit."