Guys!
Happy Friday! There is an awesome Mumford and Sons song called Awake My Soul that I think you should all listen to. If you have heard it before, hear it again with new ears.
Do we recognize that everything we do here, paves our way to eternity?
Think about every opportunity you have to do good or bad. The inner desire to rebel against your parents, the choice to say yes to something your friends are doing that you know is wrong, or even those hard moments of patience with your siblings. These are all given to us in freedom so that we may choose the good.
But what is the harm if we choose the bad? So what if I talk back to my parents, they will forgive me. Who cares if I do bad things with my friends, it's not hurting anyone.
If only we could see that every choice we make drastically changes our habits to do good or bad. A virtue is a habit that has been lived with such consistency that it has been engrained in your nature. Developing virtue is what true manhood is. A true man is someone who will choose what is best for others before he serves himself. A true man doesn't choose this so others will see him, he chooses this because he knows his time here has an impact for the future and for eternity.
I took a few high schoolers who went to Camp to a talk by a marine who was taken hostage in Iran
Check out the first 49 seconds of this clip from one of the best movies ever, GLADIATOR! He was a general who became a slave, who became a gladiator, who changed a city.
When you are faced with an opportunity to serve or be served, know that you are not alone in seeking the good.
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