Thoughts and stories, by Pal

I loved this last post of Seth Adam Smith.  I believe you will also. The Lost Words of Jacob Marley NOVEMBER 17, 2014  /  SETH ADAM SMITH One of my all-time favorite books is  A Christmas Carol , by Charles Dickens. I didn’t always like it. In fact, when I was much younger, I pretty much hated it. I felt like it was over-commercialized and overused during Christmas. A few years ago, while listening to an audio rendition of the book, I heard something that I felt like I had never heard before. The passage comes from that pivotal moment when Ebenezer Scrooge meets the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley, now a chained and tormented soul, is lamenting the opportunities he lost to serve mankind. This is what happens next: “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. “Business!”  cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business