I told a friend we were looking to hire someone at work.\u00a0 Given the unemployment rate, I thought I was doing a good thing.\u00a0 Perhaps the friend has other friends who need a job.\u00a0 I was doing him a favor, right?\u00a0 Not so.\u00a0 It turns out the friend is in the business of finding jobs for other people.\u00a0 So, instead of me doing a favor by offering a job,\u00a0 I was asking a friend to do something as a favor\u00a0for me, for which he would normally get paid.\u00a0 Follow that?\u00a0 I thought I was possibly doing him a favor, but instead, I was asking him for one and didn’t know it.<\/p>\n
The funny thing about favors is, it can sometimes be difficult to tell who’s doing the favor and who’s getting the favor.\u00a0\u00a0 You set out to do something nice for someone and you end up feeling like you received more than you gave.\u00a0 It’s especially true of God.\u00a0 I don’t like to admit it, but sometimes I have this attitude like I’m doing\u00a0God a favor.\u00a0 Not so.\u00a0 He’s in the favor business.\u00a0 And WAY out of my league.\u00a0 With\u00a0God, I’m always on the receiving end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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