Comments on: Integrity: thinking out loud http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/09/integrity-thinking-out-loud/ Thoughts from our faith community about life Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:46:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: SM http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/09/integrity-thinking-out-loud/comment-page-1/#comment-50 SM Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:56:02 +0000 http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/?p=128#comment-50 Good comment. It is preachable! Good comment. It is preachable!

]]> By: James http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/09/integrity-thinking-out-loud/comment-page-1/#comment-49 James Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:58:30 +0000 http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/?p=128#comment-49 Standing upright is a careful balancing act. I am amazed that walking at its most basic is actually throwing ourselves out of balance and catching ourselves with another foot in continuous progression. Keeping our moral balance is sometimes tricky. PS-I consider the dictionary a bastion of last resort to which I obviously turned last night... sometimes it just helps me be certain I am not unbelievably out there somewhere. Standing upright is a careful balancing act. I am amazed that walking at its most basic is actually throwing ourselves out of balance and catching ourselves with another foot in continuous progression. Keeping our moral balance is sometimes tricky.

PS-I consider the dictionary a bastion of last resort to which I obviously turned last night… sometimes it just helps me be certain I am not unbelievably out there somewhere.

]]> By: SM http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/09/integrity-thinking-out-loud/comment-page-1/#comment-48 SM Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:49:22 +0000 http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/?p=128#comment-48 Working with upright. If you are not upright what are you? Laying flat. Dead. Only God can redeem us and God has. PS I have not looked in the dictionary yet. Working with upright. If you are not upright what are you? Laying flat. Dead. Only God can redeem us and God has.
PS I have not looked in the dictionary yet.

]]> By: James http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/09/integrity-thinking-out-loud/comment-page-1/#comment-47 James Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:53:04 +0000 http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/?p=128#comment-47 I like the word upright and I appreciate your take on integrity. One of the dictionary definitions of integrity is "moral uprightness." The root of the word in Latin is "integer" which means intact or whole. Integrity is a rich word and trying to get at the biblical roots of this character trait makes me think it encompasses both moral uprightness and spiritual wholeness/intactness. Perhaps it is a dance- to be whole is to be upright and to be upright one must be whole- they hold hands in a foxtrot or waltz. Okay maybe that is stretching the metaphor... I like the word upright and I appreciate your take on integrity. One of the dictionary definitions of integrity is “moral uprightness.” The root of the word in Latin is “integer” which means intact or whole. Integrity is a rich word and trying to get at the biblical roots of this character trait makes me think it encompasses both moral uprightness and spiritual wholeness/intactness. Perhaps it is a dance- to be whole is to be upright and to be upright one must be whole- they hold hands in a foxtrot or waltz. Okay maybe that is stretching the metaphor…

]]> By: SM http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/09/integrity-thinking-out-loud/comment-page-1/#comment-46 SM Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:33:18 +0000 http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/?p=128#comment-46 The word upright came into my head while I read your thoughts out load. Job 1:1 There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. I also thought as Shalom being an overwhelming peace. One that covers, holds, Back to upright Hosea 14:9 9 Those who are wise understand these things; those who are discerning know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them. But we can be redeemed!!!! The word upright came into my head while I read your thoughts out load.
Job 1:1 There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
I also thought as Shalom being an overwhelming peace. One that covers, holds,
Back to upright
Hosea 14:9 9 Those who are wise understand these things; those who are discerning know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
But we can be redeemed!!!!

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