What Are Your Values About Life?

The values you set for yourself in life should be critically important to you and all others in your life. The way you were raised as a child should be a reflection of what those values are like today. I sometimes wonder today if people really care about what kind of values they live by. It seems that our society today seems less caring about what kind of life's values they live by.


Just recently I read an article in a senior citizen's newsletter that really concerned me about this particular subject. The article was about a male senior citizen who was now involved in an extramarital relationship and who thought his affair was perfectly legitimate.

Here's the real shame of the whole story. His wife was now in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease and even though he wasn't interested in a divorce he believed this affair was right for him to be in. What is even a bigger shame was his friends and children even endorsed this affair.

As far as I know all marriage vows include the words "for better or for worse until death do we part". Maybe he forgot that pledge and was only interested in his own personal satisfaction. People have to realize when faced with challenges in their lives that the values they set for themselves should create the support they need to survive them.

I may not married but soon the bells will cling, yet with all that I have seen, gleaned and pass through though, I believe values can be holding unto and I can say I've tried to live up to some pretty strong ones. I believe that is how I've kept myself and my relationship for going.

There's a chart I came across on the Internet recently that may be of interest to you. See how you stand on all of life's values. Take time to assess your life's values. See if there are areas you would like to improve. If you would like to know more about this subject you can reach me at treasured1creativeideas@yahoo.com or comment to: http://www.orgsites.com/fl/treasured1/

FAITHFULNESS

The heart is the power of obedience

Though some men in conscience have died

Faithfulness stands out sounding motivation

For the same cause Christ bled and sigh

Here wails the waiting of hope

For many in kindred mind bled

What lays in store our line?

For the flesh and the spirit do fled

Where are the faithful?

The world of dying men do pine

Where sound the untold stories?

All men in selfishness do shine

To love is faithfulness

And to be is truthfulness

But our worlds undo woes

And pray for power in kindness

Salau O John©

SEE BEYOND

Troubles will try the heart away

But get away from the people to God

And stop, listen; a word he’ll say

Worry not but plant in the Lord

The sky is the worlds’ limit

But in God I sail your burden

For isolated in Him, you’re fit

And known a path alight open

See thou the stars with scars

Your limitation your burden

God lays the imagination so far

But thou must see, buying concern

O for the heart, God understands

Ah! The manifold blessings of God

How great they are, greater than sand

See beyond the physical, but the Lord

Salau O John

CHANGE THOUGHT

Thought change is attitude corrected

And attitude brought about altitude

Yet many things yoked dejected

But that alight burrow fortitude

Thoughts make the world possible

Though changes are hard to tie

But a correct turning, a credible

Even when all things want sigh

With your thoughts comes your doing

And with the mind wears all change

For the power to form lays your going

Though the world, a friend thy strange

Here hope coping change thoughts

For the lesson you ought taught

Here comes the heaving, your heart

But that change yours to chart

Salau O John©

You can also register at the venue