Integrity Checks

Integrity checks.  Situations in life where your integrity is tested, where no one may ever know if you chose to do the right thing or not.  I had another one happen the other day.  I ordered a year's worth of contact lenses from Wal Mart.  They had one box on hand when I placed my order and said they'd call me when the rest of my order arrived.  They called, I picked up my order, I went home.  Something didn't feel right, though.  I now had 3 boxes of lenses and I couldn't make the math work- there were simply too many lenses for my eyes to go through in a year.  So I checked my original receipt, checked the box's UPC code, and sure enough I had an extra box.  A $75 dollar mistake on Wal Mart's end.  I returned the box the next day.

Times such as these- whenever they happen- are integrity checks.  I'd like to think I've passed every integrity check that's come my way, but I haven't.  No one is perfect.  And yet each integrity check comes for a reason and is an opportunity to demonstrate integrity.