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The title most likely got your attention because it's not a typical blog topic for me. So what type of question is this anyways. Well... this is a question that came to me while I sat in church today. Today's message was about being eternally focused and letting Kingdom values guide your daily life. This message really gave me a chance to think about how my actions line up with what I claim to hold as values. Values are the principles that guide your behavior or decision making. Where do your value come from? Most people have a variety of sources from which their values are developed like from your family, close friends, church or spiritual circles. However, we do have the power to choose who/what we let influence our core values. Sometimes we forget that in everything there is a choice from what type of television shows and music we entertain to the company that we keep. It's like my mom always used to say "you become who you hang around". So how can you really...

I recently had an interesting conversation  that has since caused me to begin some healthy reflection and  I wanted to share some of the key points with you. A coworker and I were staffing cases and somehow came to the topic of unhealthy relationships and why so many people remain in them. As someone who has had this experience I offered this hypothesis for discussion. "When you're not happy with who you are, sometimes you would rather be with anyone rather than be alone. It's like patching a leaky boat, you find a temporary fix for some of the symptoms instead of taking the time, energy and proper materials to permanently correct the problem." Of coarse this is not by any means an epiphany  but for some reason this thought has stuck with me. I began to wonder what other areas in life and what other relationships in addition to romantic relationships do we continuously patch instead of fixing. So I came up with the following questions for self-evaluation: 1. Are ...