Are there moments that define us? Moments when we have a choice to make that will reach far beyond the boundary of a certain day or time or place? A specific decision that will put us on one side or the other of a ledger that defines eternal values?
I know a young man — 24 years old at the time — who, on a seemingly ordinary day, faced this type of extraordinary decision. What he chose that day would define who he was deep at the center of his being. He would live with the ramifications of that decision every day, and he would sleep with them at night.
On one side of that decision lay significant monetary gain coupled with the effort required to rationalize a decision known to be less than honorable…