You fight for your family.

You fight for your country.

You fight for truth.

Or is it?

You fight for truth

that blesses your country,

that blesses your family,

that bless you?

The proven adage is that progress results from prioritizing.

We have boulders, rocks, sand, and a bucket. A fulfilling and complete life is filling the bucket with all three. There is only one way. The A projects in our life must be done before the B projects that must be done before the C projects. This is not easy to do because the A projects are the boulders, the B projects are the rocks and the C projects are the sand. It is by far easier to fill the bucket with sand than rocks and with rocks than boulders so the temptation for an ease of life is to start filling the bucket with sand. The problem is that such a priority dooms one to failure. Convenience is the mother of failure. If we fill the bucket with sand first, that is do the C projects before the B before the A projects, we will never fill the bucket. The only way to fill the bucket is to put the boulders in first, then the rocks which surround the boulders in the spaces between the boulder and then do the same with the sand around the rocks. And let me tell you, it is easier to move the boulders when one is young, but not impossible when one is old. After all, it is a mental world and in such, mass is inconsequential.

We never, never understand the job until it is done.

If we are going to die, let it be for a cause.

If we are going to live, let it be for a cause.

If we are going to work with another, let it be for a mutual cause.

If we have a choice, and we do, let us live and die for a good cause.

When a warrior says in defense of his lack of performance, "My sword was too short." It was too short only because he was not close enough to his enemy. Being close in anything takes courage.

Some things are ours, and we are the stewards thereof.

Some things are not ours, and we should not meddle.

Some things we share, and those take cooperation.

All things are God’s, and of that we must honor.

All things end in judgment.