[TheForge] Re: theft at the tailgate sales

[Jeff Harding]

Good for you!!
    I mean that sincerely, it is an admirable quality you are
professing, it's called grace.  It's author knew what He was doing
when He designed it in us.  Grace is it's own reward, few other things
can make you feel the way extending grace does.  I'm still growing in
that area and not there yet.
    I can't afford to replace any of my tools at the moment either, if
one disappears, I'll have to work around it.  That's why I bought the
tool, so I didn't have to work around it anymore...  Key word,
"bought".

   Jeff><>


----- Original Message -----
From: <VenezianoJ@aol.com>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 7:35 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: theft at the tailgate sales


> I can't speak for anyone else...but I'm not gong to let the
incidents break
> down my trust.  In the past, at desperate times, I've found myself
doing
> things I'm not that proud of.  Paid the price, and received
forgiveness for
> them.  Then the greatest blessing...someone invested their trust in
me again.
>  I now owe it to them to do so to the rest of everyone.  Which is
why, on
> those rare occasions when I have something to sell in my tailgate,
I'll still
> leave it unmanned -- with a cigar box for anyone who buys to throw
their
> money in to.  Hope that, unless this problem continues to grow, that
others
> will to.
>
> <<  Well said, and right on the money.  Now, how does one manage to
>  keep the sense of trustworthiness and not lock everything up, so as
>  not to go broke replacing things that shouldn't have disappeared?
I
>  never intended to become cynical, it sucks too, not sure how I got
>  here, just know if I don't protect it, it disappears.  Any
suggestions
>  will be seriously well taken.
>
>     Jeff   ><>
>
>
>  > Destruction of trustworthiness really sucks and I have to say
>  > that I resent it.  One of the best things about blacksmithing
>  > events is that sense of trust and honor among people. This is
>  > perfectly engendered in the ability of a person to cruise the
>  > tailgate area when everyone else is off doing something else
>  > and knowing that all those people trust YOU enough to not feel
>  > a need to lock up their wares when they're gone.  In this day
>  > and age when so many people seem to be trying their level best
>  > to steal anything and everything they can, it has always been
>  > a great source of satisfaction knowing that we, the blacksmiths
>  > of this world, do not operate in this manner.
>  >
>  > What I hope is that we will not become cynical, as much of the
>  > rest of the world has, and allow our fundamental spirit of
>  > trust and community to be destroyed by such behavior.  If we do,
>  > then we will have lost something very significant and I believe
>  > that the community of blacksmiths will be altered in a way that
>  > will diminish the quality and character of that community most
>  > sadly.
>  >
>  > >>
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