To Be or Not To Be

"Come on Bob! You know all this is a scam." That's what Richard in Creative Services at the television station tried to tell me . I painted practically the whole interior of the station one year and I got to know everybody and everything that went on there. Poor Richard was the resident cynic. It bothered me greatly that he should see my efforts as a scam and not worthwhile. It bothered me to be the butt of his jokes. I felt sorry for him to have such an awful outlook on life. So I looked him in the eye and I said, "Richard, do you think what you do is a scam?"
What is it then? To Be or not to Be? Do you know that sickening feeling that spreads through you like bad blood when you realize there is no faith in some relationship? When you sense the faith evaporating like a soul leaving a body at death you know hope in that relation is dead. I think Forrest Gump said it best, "Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks." If I do something for you, patch some plaster, build a wall, we must have a relation of faith established. That is TO BE!
Poor Richard did not realize his life was going by. To not live the days in faith? That is a real horror show. Faith goes hand in hand with Hope. Whatever work is done, it has to be done in faith. Consider the farmer who plants a seed in the ground with faith in the seasons and hope of the future harvest.

I will remain BOB THE PAINTER!