personal definitions and reflections
May. 2nd, 2008 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
esmio06I consider one of the great things my dad taught me was honor. honor has nothing to do with doing what is right when that is wht you wanted to do anyways. It takes honor to do the right thing even when what you want is against what you know is right.
Honor makes you step forward when you have done wrong and admit it. Honor forbids you from making excuses for your behavior, rather dictates that you change when you are wrong.
I think this is where my concept of sacrifice comes from. that when a choice between my pleasure and somebody else's needs is at stake, honor comes to play. that is when the choice of do I just go for the instant fun I want now, or do I remember what my dad taught me?
Don't get me wrong there have been plenty of times i have messed that up, that I gave into what i wanted right then withuot thinking of the cost to others, but I believe that each one of those has hit me so hard that it ingrains that lesson even deeper into my being.
This is not a reflection on anything I have been through lately, other than self examination.
This is a big part of who I hop I am, and the little bit of this that does shine in me, I thank my parents for.
Im not a big bible thumper.. anymore, actually not really big on it at all anymore, but to me
Honor, imho, is one of the key components of love
" 1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Honor makes you step forward when you have done wrong and admit it. Honor forbids you from making excuses for your behavior, rather dictates that you change when you are wrong.
I think this is where my concept of sacrifice comes from. that when a choice between my pleasure and somebody else's needs is at stake, honor comes to play. that is when the choice of do I just go for the instant fun I want now, or do I remember what my dad taught me?
Don't get me wrong there have been plenty of times i have messed that up, that I gave into what i wanted right then withuot thinking of the cost to others, but I believe that each one of those has hit me so hard that it ingrains that lesson even deeper into my being.
This is not a reflection on anything I have been through lately, other than self examination.
This is a big part of who I hop I am, and the little bit of this that does shine in me, I thank my parents for.
Im not a big bible thumper.. anymore, actually not really big on it at all anymore, but to me
Honor, imho, is one of the key components of love
" 1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
