INTEGRITY

INTEGRITY

It's Tuesday and Sue and I are off to do her spinal tap (unless she wakes up with the flubug that Dana brought home when they went to CO over the weekend.) It will happen somewhere between 10a and 2p EST so prayer for both results and recovery (we've heard horror stories of migraines) would be appreciated.

We've had rain for almost 3 days; not East Coast rain yet good for what this area needs which has been so without rain for crops etc.

My column title comes from thoughts about our message here at Grace Bible Church on Sunday. In a part of the message the pastor was talking about a USA Today article at the beginning of last year that lists the words most often looked up on Encarta..or whatever thesarsus used and the word at the top of the list was integrity. What a sign of our times that integrity is not in the mainstream's vocabulary.

We talked about it going home from church and about its meaning; my take to the kids was: 'it's doing what you know is right even if you don't want to do it, even if no one will ever know you did or didn't do it.

Actually, I like best what King David said about it in the 15th Psalm: 'He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart.

'Wow, the waves were spectacular at Pismo on Saturday...big storm in Alaska brought 10-15 ft waves...we (the kids) had fun just playing in the foam that day..

M.