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Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain.  Unknown Today's quote is a foreign concept to most anyone who walks in their human nature with nothing else prompting them to defeat their human nature and live in their potential.  (No human nature isn't our potential.  It is wicked and deceitful.  Click here for that proof text.) Integrity is a conscious choice to sacrifice our entitlements and our justifications.  Who says our ways aren't right?  Sometimes they are but let me pose a situation of integrity before you and you will quickly see what I mean.  This is a simple one that almost everyone can relate to at some point in their life. You've got sick days at work and vacation days.  You're out of vacation days but are taking a vacation and you book your flight a day earlier than you vacation really starts and say "I'll just call in sick."  You have sick days so you'll take one...

I may wonder what kind of mission God has for me,  when I should ask what kind of me God wants for his mission.  Christopher J.H. Wright So often it isn't the mission that is God's focus as much as it is the people he's called to it.  God knows when each of us are ready for the mission he has in mind.  Problem is we want to push up that timeline - we focus too much on the mission and not enough, or at all, on the inner man.  What do I mean by that?  I mean that in order to set our hands and feet to the missions of God we have to have a healthy inner man.  We have to have integrity in our personal and work lives, we have to know when to speak and when to be quiet, we have to have an awareness of the culture we are in, etc.  I think you probably see what I am getting at.  The beauty of God is that he allows us opportunities to participate in his missions at all stages of our inner man development.  He doesn't say that we have to be "100%...

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady.   Marilyn Monroe Too bad most women, and young ladies, don't think this quote by Monroe is true these days.   Except that it is.   Women of all ages - please please please respect yourselves enough to dress to be a woman and not a fill in the blank with your word of choice . And you know what I mean. Think about a woman you've seen recently that has been wearing too little and it has been too tight.  First thoughts about her?  About her self-worth?  About the kind of life choices she makes? Now think about a woman you've sen recently that has been wearing age appropriate and body size appropriate.  First thoughts about her?  About her self-worth?  About the kind of choices she makes? True that may be judging but we tend to dress according to what we believe about ourselves.  Really.  And if we don't take those thoughts down a...