So am I crazy, or are you not supposed to wear blankets when it is pretty much summer out? This has been something that me and a certain someone have been discussing quite a bit. For example. Sitting in my house today, its crazy hot. I felt like I needed less cloths on, and the oh so cool Ryan said “I feel like stripping”(obviously to remove some cloths cause of the heat) Now in this circumstance, would you expect someone to be under a blanket? Probably not….but yup…there someone was! How bizare!

Speaking of bizar fun things….this week I get to go pick up my brother from PA. Oh the joy. Actually it will be a nice road trip. Getting out of MI for a bit. Think I have started to go stir crazy in here…..

The church’s website is finally up and running as smooth as can be. The link can be found here.

Any other random things that I can think of right now?

No.

But I can think of something serious. One of my kicks that has been on my mind for a long time has been integrity. I won’t go into what brought it up in my mind again recently, lets just say that it should have, needed to have been, applied to that situation. But anywhoo. Integrity. This thing called integrity can be described as this: who we are when no one and when everyone is looking and acting in these situations in such a way as to be consistent with moral knowledge and contracts(both willing and unwilling). Meaning, to have intergrity is to be the same person when no one is looking at us. When our actions arn’t being judged by those around us, and the only ones that know our actions that are commited are ourselves and God. The idea of Integrity is then carried on further by the thought that it is also who we are when everyone we know is watching us, even though we sometimes don’t know that they are watching us. What we do, say, how we act, how we carry ourselves, etc… all affect us, and those around us. That is the consitent part of integrity. The other part, the morality and contracts part can be described as acting within the moral framework that one has been taught. For Christians, it is obvious that the moral framework comes directly from the Bible. While there are some who look at this and think that this is shortsighted, or whatever, it is the truth. Then there is the contract part. These can be anything from a contract that a person signs at a workplace or school stating(voluntarilly) that in order to be a part of that community the person commits to perform or not perform certain acts, and that if this contract is broken then there can be consequences. Other contracts that can be made can be forced(or at least seem forced) on a person. I tend to classify social contracts under that category, although this can be questioned, and rightly so!

Ok, enough of my rant today on integrity. Maybe one day I will write down my thoughts in a more clear and conscise manner.

For now though, adios.

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