Religious Morals As The Backbone To Every Household

After reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn I believe, now more than ever, that a belief in God or his words should be the backbone of every household. The bible teaches good morals to educate ourselves and to live by. It instills good values, teaching mercy, kindness, and patience towards life, yourself and others.

Mercy is compassion, forgiveness and non-judging. Mercy is not receiving something you deserve. Mercy calms you where kindness is shunned or unseen. Without mercy we would have all that crazy high school drama that you may remember, without resolution, and more of it. It takes you to remember that you don't know everybody's situation, story, or reasoning behind things. A young, unmarried girl can baby-sit their baby niece and do some errands for their aunt as an act of kindness and get judged by on-lookers in disgust for they believe her to be a young teenage mother, not graduated, with a child born out of wedlock.

Kindness is a boost in another persons day. It encourages others to keep doing good deeds such as opening the door for others, or that you actually appreciate the hard work put into making dinner each night for the family every night. We have encouragement boxes at camp for the staff, and many times where I thought I had nothing to offer to the world, I wold go to my encouragement box and read an encouragement another staff member might have left me. My face would light up, my heart no longer felt heavy and I had happiness I needed to share with the world before it blew up like the finale at firework shows! Kindness is need to push some of that insecurity to the side and to put a skip in a persons step.

Have you ever heard the saying, "good things come to those who wait"? Our world is coming to and end due to our selfish ways. You don't see as many decent people around anymore. Everything had to happen right away or not at all, and if it doesn't happen, you get a whole lot of swearing, fuming, complaining and raging. With patience, marriages would not have such a high divorce rate, less teenagers would have pre-marital sex. With patience, the crash rate and fatalities wouldn't be so high. Patience is to persevere steadily and to be even-tempered.

Even if you don't believe there is a God or higher being, you should practice mercy, kindness and patience. This is even more important if you have children as they follow you with "monkey see, monkey do." Rid your life of selfishness, insecurity and anxiety. The world would be a wonderful place with the bible as the backbone of every household.

"Train a child the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it."

Proverbs 22:6



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