So this last week has been super exciting and productive and revealing. Since I last wrote I have been attempting to focus on the virtue of loyalty, I have been to a wedding in Calgary, won grand prize at my work's casino night, got a job in China, mostly sorted out university for the fall, celebrated numerous birthdays, played musical bingo at a seniors home with junior youth, read the most recent NatGeo and made significant advances on Super Mario Bros Wii. What virtue?
Really tho, I definitely notice myself getting back into the mindset of virtues as the last few weeks have progressed; learning to really work with them and use them, that will come later. It all starts in the head right?
Loyalty is interesting. Makes you think of dogs? Yeah me too. Why? Because dogs are loyal. Why? Because they stick to, love, and sometimes protect (depending on their breed and disposition and size), the person that feeds them and takes care of them. Okay, if that is the basis of loyalty I am able to come up with then to be loyal I must stick to, love, and sometimes protect(?), both my parents and God. Because they have fed me and taken care of me collectively. Barring my logic making sense to anyone else my theory is (kind of) backed up in numerous quotes in Sacred Moments such as:
'The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.'
Lamentations 3
There is another beautiful quote from the Bible, Proverbs 4, that resonated with me all week:
'More than all else, keep watch over your heart, since here are the wellsprings of life.'
'Out of the whole world He hath chosen for Himself the hearts of men.'
The two quotes seem so intimately linked though they have come from religious teachings thousands of years separate; proof that there is one God with one unfolding religion for mankind? Loyalty seems to be more driven by the heart than by actions or the mind, and so it makes me think about what I really have my heart set on and therefore how that is influencing to what or who I feel most loyal.
If my heart is the well spring of life and I have my heart set on, an individual, an idea, a desire, how dangerous for my own well being could that be. And if my heart is the well spring of life and I allow God to have that one piece of me which He has chosen then what a content and harmonious existence I can begin to live. Deep.
On what will seem like a completely unrelated note to you, I have just recently downloaded Ocean into my computer which I haven't had for years. Ocean is a free software library of religious scripture and literature from around the world that you can download onto your computer. It is really a brilliant tool and has kept me completely occupied and engaged for hours now. I would like to blame that for the scattered nature of this post, I kept getting distracted by Ocean. Better than Nintendo I guess.
Next Thursday I will review my week of purposefulness which begins today.
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