The Third Three Things

There are three things that we should never lose.

     ~Hope

          ~Peace

               ~Honesty

~HOPE

I’ve been writing steadily for a few years now and have noticed that when I write on the subject of hope my readership increases; I get more clicks.  That is a multi-layered fact about our world today, I think.  We seek hope and a future that is good and bright.

This quote has been attributed to several sources including Hal Lindsey and John C. Maxwell:

A man can live ...

 40 days without food

 3 days without water

 8 minutes without air

 1 second without hope

Someone once observed – when you are out of hope, you are out of options. 

Hold onto hope!

~PEACE

Where is your quiet place?  When do you find solace and peace? 

A quick reminder:

Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles, it takes away today’s peace.  

(Author unknown)

I think Albert Einstein is onto something:

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

There seems to be two ways of looking at this thought – peace for our world, and peace within ourselves.  Isn’t self-understanding the beginning of peace?  “Know thyself” is still pretty good advice.

~HONESTY

Everyone has a sense of ‘honesty’, at least I want to believe that.  The world craves for honesty.  We seek it in our political leaders, in our religion, in our work place and in our everyday dealings. 

Wouldn’t it be something if we labeled people according to their character traits?  Remember “Honest Abe”?  Let’s start a movement back to honesty.

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The Second Three Things

There are three things in life that can destroy a person.  Whatever you do, do not fall victim to these.

     ~Anger

          ~Pride

               ~Unforgiveness

Anger

Anger never works.  It often acts like a cancer, eating away on the person who is angry rather than affecting the one toward whom the anger is directed.  It is like eating empty calories – chips, cookies – they may taste good but where is the nutritional value?  And I question whether anger really does ‘taste good’.

Pride

I recall an ancient scriptural text that says this: Pride goes before a fall. 

There is such a thing as a ‘good pride’.  I have pride in the writing I do on most days.  That’s good – it is a form of self-acceptance.

However – pride that is of a ‘better than others’ stripe stinks. 

We had a joke in college that went like this: “I’m proud I’m humble.”

Pride is a dangerous attribute.  Consider these synonyms

Conceit

  Smugness

    Egotism

      Vanity

        Superiority

These attitudes can be sensed from a long way off. 

  

Un-forgiveness

Are you ever in need of mercy, compassion, understanding, tolerance and pardon?  Then you are one in need of forgiveness.

What a horrible sentence it is to aim Un-forgiveness against another person. 

Reconciliation – now that is the next step after Un-forgiveness. 

To Reconcile

   ~Settle

      ~Resolve

         ~Merge

            ~Join

We need a good dose of merging our hearts after a fallout, don’t you think?

Just some thoughts

Four more in in this series.

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