hmmm…..
Brianna Lamar is one lucky 14-year old. She was born cocaine addicted and HIV positive but thanks to good doctors and medicine, has lived a full and healthy life. Raised by her grandparents, she is not shy to tell anyone about her illness. Nearly everyone she meets quickly hears about her affliction. She does not try to hide it in anyway. In fact, she is so vocal and so healthy that she has been nominated to be a “Champion” of the Children’s Miracle Network.
Actually, this young teenage girl has what many adults only wish they had and that is integrity. She knows who she is and she is not afraid to identify herself to anyone who will listen; she has that special quality of being who she says she is. Even when she was little, she clearly identified herself as HIV positive, in spite of the fact that she knew that many people would shun her.
I have heard it said that a good definition of integrity is when your insides match your outsides. That is, when our actions match our true thoughts and feelings. It’s is not so hard to do when all is going well in our lives. It is much more difficult when we are challenged or confronted by people who don’t agree with us.
Do you live with integrity? Are you able to identify your feelings and act upon what you think and feel? It’s not so easy, but it makes life so much simpler.
hmmm…..
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