Why Faith, Family, Friends, Fitness, and Finance?

Finally getting down to why I’m writing this blog and sharing with both people I know personally and those who don’t even know who the heck I am. Well, I hope that something I say here on the blog will help someone. I hope that there will be some seed of thought here that will be planted on fertile ground.. As said in the bible in Mark 4:20,

“Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown."

So people are probably asking why these five areas of life? And the answer is important, as these are the categories that all humans have in common. Each one affects the other and yet is important on its own. Take for instance, Friends as the third category, who your friends are will effect the other four areas. The wrong friends will tear those other categories down and you with the process. The right friends will build you up and cause spillover into the other 4 areas of life or categories. The truth is that a balance between these areas is what will give a more fruitful life.

Second, the order, Faith, Family, Friends, Fitness and Finance, is for a specific reason. It is the order of priority. Faith, being the highest priority, also transcends itself into the other 4 areas of life. Faith is the belief in things not seen. It is the ability to see positive things for the future even when bad things happen. That’s why leading a spiritual life is so important, as it benefits all areas of life. Generally, when a person lacks Faith then Fear takes over. Fear is just the other side, also a belief in things not seen, but is the lack of hope, a negative attitude. Yes, Faith is by far the most important indeed.

The last of the five is Finance. You can have all the money you need and still be unsuccessful. Sure, money is a good tool, but not the secret to happiness. However, the lack of this area will, like the other 4, spillover and affects the other areas of life.

Family and Friends mainly has to do with cultivating good relationships. It is amazing to me how much modern peoples lack in this regard. Learning to nurture your relationships will only have a positive effect on your entire life.

And of course, Fitness is so important. We have all heard the saying, “Without our health we have nothing”, although not absolutely true, it obviously trumps how much money you have in the bank.

It is amazing how much time has gone by after starting this blog. I have so much to share with you and look forward to covering some more on this topic. I will also be covering specific elements from all the 5 areas of life.

Blessings to YOU! I will leave you with a very funny video about priorities, WHAT WOULD YOU RATHER BE

The Video is no longer available. So I removed the link.

OBAMA VS. McCAIN

One more day until the election and I will be glad not to have to listen to one more negative political ad. I can’t recall when a political season of worse negativity than in this year in 2008. It is basically more of the same. I can’t wait until someone speaks up and encourages campaign finance reform. It seems congress passes one law and the parties and candidates always find a way around it.

What I would like to see is each candidate that runs for president has the same media coverage and advertising dollars to run their campaigns. I would like to see some accountability for accuracy in information. Let’s face it both candidates stretched the truth. It is interesting to see all the facts that are stretched this year.

Just take a minute and look at all the disputed claims on factcheck.org. I won’t repeat it here put just take a look.

http://www.factcheck.org/archive/October_2008.html

There should be laws in place just like there is with commercial organizations such as vitamin companies, where there are fines rendered for false information to the public. These are just my opinion, but doesn’t that make sense?

I would also like to see third parties treated fairly. Many good third parties have great ideas that are being suppressed by the big two. I particularly like the libertarian party, and the constitutional party. The reform party has some good ideas and so does the Green Party. I’m not promoting a third party here, but I think they should be heard.

Here are some websites to look at:

http://www.lp.org/

http://www.constitutionparty.com/

http://www.gp.org/index.php

http://www.reformpartyusa.org/


It really is amazing how many third parties there actually are:

http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm

Well with all that said I will disclose who I am going to vote for, and that is John McCain and Sara Palin. The reason I am going to vote that way is because of the social issues that I feel are going further and further away from what I believe to be the truth. And that is the pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And that our rights are endowed by our creator. This county was founded on Judeo Christian values and it is those values and respect for God that has allowed this nation to become great. It will be the loss of those values that will send this nation into destruction, as did the Persian Empire, and the Roman Empire fall into obscurity.

George Washington said that it is impossible to govern a nation without God and the bible. I think everyone should be taught what was in the minds of our country’s founders. Take some time to research and to understand what made this county what it is today.

http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/

Ok, I will leave you with some humor, and wish you all a tremendous election day.
Go Vote!