What We Value the Most
What We Value the Most
By Dustin Hawkins
Our values seem to be those core principles, or those core beliefs that lead, guide, direct, and help us in our decision making process throughout the game of life. Life is full of ups and downs, where often times we tend to get off track, and even fall towards the ways of the world, then becoming lost and unhappy. The values and principles that we hold so close to our soul, a lot of times, are what make up who we are, what we are, and the decisions we choose to make. If we value the substances of this world, we then become slaves to the substances of this world, and even imprisoned by them. For instance, maybe when we were young, before our addiction, we had a good set of core values, that involved: family, charity, honesty, and integrity, but ever since we allowed the substances of this world to come into our system, they have since stripped us of those core values, making our values now their values. Now instead of making decisions based on what we once knew to be true, we are now making decisions based on false pleasures, or immediate highs; highs and pleasures that offer no real guidance nor direction, and will eventually cause us to wander in strange paths, and to even become lost to the values we once knew. The idea of having our core values and beliefs revolve around God, or the Invisible hand, or whoever your higher power might be, seems to be a valuable idea, for we can come to know the way of life that He promotes, which is the family way of life, or the slow way of life; where we are to remain humble, meek, submissive, kind, charitable, and even spiritual. His way of life is the spending of adequate time on our knees, pleading, praying, and even searching for ways to become a better person. His way of life is the ultimate self help way, where He can enlighten the dark mind by providing hope for a brighter day. He can help us to see those things that are of true importance in our lives, where he can lift our minds out of the fog by allowing the light to pierce through. He can align our values and way of life in the way that He would have us live, then helping to recognize, and even realize where our true talents lay. The reason that it is smart to build upon your core values through the ways of God is because through the ways of God one can come to believe they have help as they strive to harmonize their life with His life. It's the idea that life is but a proving ground, and that if we harmonize our life in such a beautiful way, that we will be blessed by the almighty beyond measure, then making our life more manageable, in which our addiction will eventually be felt no more, since we will now be making wise decisions more often because our core values will be in line with what we are starting to truly believe.