Live courageously from your heart!
What values do you want to pass on to your children? How well does your life reflect your core values?
Websters dictionary defines integrity as:
1. firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility
2. an unimpaired condition : soundness
3. the quality or state of being complete or undivided : completeness
Back in February I posted a blog post titled, “Who is your Samwise?”. During that time a group of seniors participating in a speech/creative writing class spent some time answering this question. I share those unedited responses with permission from their instructor.
“I don’t really have a Samwise. I have multiple friends that help me with different things. Some are very close; but some, not so much. I love my friends and need them to get through life, either to just have fun or to figure things out that I do not understand. I need people in my life, but friends make things so much better. We like being with each other. As the Beatles once said, ‘I get by with a little help from my friends.’” -Matt
What is Easter to you? What are you doing for Easter?
Could you imagine Jesus wandering onto the scene of an Easter egg hunt or seeing excitement around Easter baskets? Easter is not about coloring eggs, kids hunting for them, Easter baskets or even enjoying a big meal with friends and family. It can include these things, but Easter is about the death and resurrection of Jesus!
I was reading a book recently and came across this:
The missionary E. Stanley Jones once met with Gandhi he asked him, “Mr. Gandhi, though you quote the words of Christ often, why is that you appear to so adamantly reject becoming his follower”
The trials of life, or our brokenness, or our wounds will at some point force us to face our need for one another. We all need that someone to lean on, that someone who will stand beside us and walk it out with us no matter what! We need people who will love us, who will walk into the wretched details of our lives.
