 Articles
About family values
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ACCOUNTABILITY
Accountability:
Honoring Ourselves and Others
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The road of accountability can be a difficult one to travel when we make mistakes, but the rewards of the journey come when the dust settles, and we have honored ourselves and others by being responsible for our actions. Accountability is a key component of finding peace with one’s conscience. It is a link that ties us to our actions and motivates us to do our best. |
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ADVERSITY
Adversity: Perils of the Journey
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Adversity is a painful, yet unavoidable portion of the entirety of our journey, and we must learn to recognize it for what it is, accept that we must navigate through it, and find within ourselves the hope and determination to press on beyond it. |
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AFFECTION
Family
Affection:
Have you Hugged your Family Today?
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There is something about affection that is deeply cherished among families. Affection lifts burdens from loved ones in difficult times, while warming hearts in every condition. Tokens of affection ease the wariness of time. They offer families a reassurance of love and feelings of comfort and appreciation for one another. Affection is a valuable tool for strengthening families, and a quality that is missed when it is gone.
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ATTENTION
Listening to Your Children
ABSTRACT
Do you ever think that your children don’t listen to a word you say? Does it seem like at times you have to repeat yourself 3 or 4 times to get a response from them? Have you ever thought that they might feel the same way about you? Do your children ever tell you that you never listen to them? Listening and communication needs to work from both sides, because communication is a two way street. While you are the parent and expect a certain degree of respect, it is a lot easier to attain that respect when you listen carefully to what your children have to say. |
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CARING
Caring: Courage to Care
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Caring takes definition in a variety of things, but mostly it means an engagement of mind that requires an investment of thought and energy. It is caring that gives life meaning both to yourself and to your relationships with others, but the best thing you can ever do in life for yourself is to learn to care for others. |
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CHANGE
Change: A constant necessity
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If there is one thing we can always count on to remain the same today as it was yesterday, it is that things will be different tomorrow. Change is a word that not welcomed amid pleasant circumstances, but desperately pleaded for in difficult times. |
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CHARITY
CHARITY: Lifting Others Higher
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As long as mankind exists on Earth, there will always be a need for selfless charity: the greatest of all virtues. |
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COMMITMENT
Commitment: As good as your word
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There is no better asset, nor worse liability than one’s personal level of commitment. Every commitment is a promise to uphold, and a goal to fulfill. A commitment is a pledge or promise to ourselves or to others…a promise that reveals whether we are as good as our word. |
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COMPASSION
Compassion: The Most Important Value
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Compassion is the human part of humanity. It is the unexpected but desperately needed mercy that holds mankind together. |
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COMPROMISE
Compromise: Meeting Others Halfway
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Compromise can often mean the difference between being correct and being together. We should never allow our compulsions for correctness to overshadow our civility and consideration for one another when there are valid points on every side. |
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CONSCIENCE
Conscience: Our Truest Course
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Conscience is the truest good of the soul—the beacon of morality that shines upon us in dark and stormy seas to guide us safely home.There is goodness in each of us—a desire to nurture what we believe to be right and to manifest our honor in our actions toward others. |
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COURAGE
Courage: Everyday Heroes
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Though it is common to think of courage as something exceptionally rare and unusual, it is a quality that everyone can achieve when they are willing to stand firmly for that which they believe is right. |
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DISCIPLINE
Self-Discipline:
The Best You Can Be
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Every day as I look in the mirror, I am confronted by one of life’s greatest ironies…that I will be both my worst enemy and greatest ally. There is no one who can cause me greater trouble or deliver more success to my life than myself. This is the challenge we must all face in learning self-discipline and becoming who we truly want to be. |
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DREAMS
Dreams: The Most Worthwhile Endeavors
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Though the realization of a dream itself may seem to be the only measure of success, those who commit their souls to their dreams, and persevere through unspeakable challenges, discover that success is as much about how much one is willing to sacrifice for a dream, as it is about seeing it come true. |
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EXAMPLE
Being an Example
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You must never forget, in good or bad, that you are always an example. You are unique and of value to others in ways of which you may not even know. |
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FAIRNESS
Fairness: Survival of the fairest
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While it is true that many things that happen in the world do not seem fair, much about fairness in the world is dependent on who we are as individuals, and how we decide to live our lives. |
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FAMILY FUN
Family Fun: Keeping Life in Perspective
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Family fun time should truly be considered a priority not an option, or in short order our tomorrows will become our todays, and the opportunities we had to share with one another will be forever gone. |
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FORGIVING
Forgiving
ABSTRACT
Grudges are dark dungeons of the mind for which forgiveness is the only escape. The only way to have room enough in our hearts to truly love others is to purge all hatred, and replace it with love. |
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GRATITUDE
Being Thankful in Good and Bad Times
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While it is true that many things that happen in the world do not seem fair, much about fairness in the world is dependent on who we are as individuals, and how we decide to live our lives. |
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HONESTY
Honesty: The Essence of Who We Are
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There are times in life when we are tested in regard to honesty, and when we may question whether the truth is always necessary, but truth is always the ultimate standard that we must hold for ourselves and anything that varies from that standard is a dilution of honor, validity, and credibility of humankind. |
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JEALOUSY
Jealousy: Defeating Selfishness & Pride
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There is nothing more self-destructive, or more demeaning to one’s own character than to be ensnared by the evils of jealousy. The best way to overcome jealousy is to fight it wherever it exists, and that often means that we must look within ourselves. |
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KINDNESS
Kindness: Every Day Fulfilled
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There are many who agree that greater love in the world could potentially solve a variety of problems ranging from hunger and poverty, to crime and war; but with so much belief in the power of love, does anybody really know what love is? |
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LOVE
What is Love
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There are many who agree that greater love in the world could potentially solve a variety of problems ranging from hunger and poverty, to crime and war; but with so much belief in the power of love, does anybody really know what love is? |
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MISTAKES
Mistakes: Life's greatest lessons
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It is difficult for many people to accept the distasteful reality of imperfection without a fight, and though there is no likely escape from some degree of human error, there is definite value in fighting our weaknesses with incessant resolve. No, none of us in our lifetimes are likely to achieve perfection, but we can certainly become more perfect every day. |
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OPTIMISM
Optimism: We are as We Think
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Being an optimist is not to believe that our lives will be perfect, or that we will always achieve our goals, but rather to believe that a goal is worth our effort and that we can achieve amazing things. |
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PASSION
Passion: The Pathway of Dreams
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Passion is a powerful feeling that ignites the engines of desire with exhilarating propulsion toward the fulfillment of a dream. Within every human soul there is a yearning and propensity to engage a cause that is dear to the heart, and that stirs the mind with an abundance of joy. |
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PATIENCE
Patience: How to be patient
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It is ironic as the world continually quickens its pace that we are told to develop the ever-cherished virtue of patience. As we stand patiently watching the world shrink into the distance, it behooves us to revisit the value of this highly praised attribute, because at the rate we are running to keep up with the world, it can be easy to believe that we simply have no time for patience. |
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PERSEVERANCE
Perseverance: Power of Persistence
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Life’s most rewarding accomplishments are those that are most elusive; thwarted by challenge, strife, and frustration, and yet, those that are unceasingly fueled by an insatiable appetite for fulfillment. Perseverance is the means to achieve the great and difficult aspirations of our lives that we believe are worthwhile, but which remain stubbornly beyond our grasp. |
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POTENTIAL
Potential: Shining a Light
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Potential is possibility—the greatness that our world, and we as individuals are capable of fulfilling if we are willing to see and believe in a brighter future of possibilities. Potential is what we are capable of attaining if we are able to discover the light that is hidden among the darkness. |
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RESPECT
Respect: Everyone Deserves Respect
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There are some who say that respect must be earned, and that people must prove themselves worthy of being held in high regard, but this reasoning is a poor way to assess new acquaintances and friends. To say that one must earn respect is to assume from the beginning that there is something amiss in people and that they must shake off the aspersions that are cast upon them by others. |
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RESPONSIBILITY
Responsibility: The Wires of Our Lives
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Life has a way of reminding us about the responsibilities that we choose to ignore. Sometimes it is better to take responsibility for our little problems before they grow into big ones. |
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TALENTS
Talents: Talents are Treasures
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Merely discovering our talents is never enough to produce the true benefits that can be derived from them. Although some talents appear to come naturally, they must also be practiced and developed with commitment to achieve a fullness of their rewards. |
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TRUST
Trust: Building life's treasures
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There are different expectations that hearts and minds require of one another in regard to trust, but in a simple sense, trust is an investment of belief in people and the relationship between them that makes them reliant upon one another in some way.In life there are times when we may find it difficult to trust anyone – even ourselves, but the most important consideration in finding someone to trust is being someone to trust. |
