"...if anything is excellent...think about such things." Philippians 4:8
Excellent: outstanding moral goodness, courage, a sense of honor, humility, modesty, ethical propriety, virtue
These kind of values, remind me of I Thessalonians 4:11-12 "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody."
When I read a verse like that, I'm completely challenged. How does one value a life like that - much less actually live it? Only by laying down our own life and taking up our cross!
Moms, again, are so blessed in that we have so much practice in laying down our own lives and taking up our cross. Motherhood often seems like one very long exercise in selflessness. That selflessness gives birth to outstanding moral goodness. We are in the greatest training camp ever!
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