The inquiring minds unite
Recently I have been receiving emails from people who stumble upon this web site in regards to the pictures in my header that change every few seconds. I am proud to say that the pictures of of my family and I. Yes, can you believe I am a proud boaster of my family! 
It makes me happy when people ask about the simple details of my life even if it’s online. I have family values and love to share them, however, sometimes debating them as well. Some may ask, “What are family values anymore?” Well, to put it simply:
Family values is a political and social concept used in various cultures to describe values that are believed to be traditional in that culture and in support of the idea that families are the basic units of culture.
Woah!
Did I just say that? Actually, no. That simple quote was taken from the Wikipedia mother brain. It goes on to say that the phrase has different meanings in different cultures. Obviously this can be seen by observing the multiculturalisms in the Middle East. What we consider to be a strong effective family value here in the U.S.A. can most often be a primal laughing source of discussion among many middle eastern cultures.
What bugs me now days, especially with the elections at hand, is how We The People use family values as a wedge in political agendas. Seemingly America was settled with a well rooted, single core family value, God. The perspectives today have stretched as far as the east is from the west. Sadly, families are unable to stay together and endure the hardships which we all face on a day-to-day basis. Screw politics and the integration of real family values in with it. There was a core one time and He is being shoved to the side. The voices are yelling out these days asking, “Why is there so much destruction, divorce, hatred, adultery, deception, murder, violence,….”? The list goes on, folks, on and on…
My questions to you are as follows:
- Did you develop your own family values after leaving home to be on your own?
- How much of an influence were your parents/grandparents on your family values?
- Do you hope to pass your family values onto your children or hope they find their own?
- What is missing in your surrounding and greater society in regards to family values?
- Do you firmly believe your family values are the “right” way? If so, why?
I hope this finds you questioning perhaps the biggest questions of all and that is how much of value is your life to you and those you love? It’s ok to answer it feeling selfish, I won’t hold it against you.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
1) Did you develop your own family values after leaving home to be on your own?
My family values were imparted to me while a child in our home. I adjusted some things following marriage because some of my concepts were foreign to my wife. Also, I needed to learn and add some of the family values she brought to our marriage.
2) How much of an influence were your parents/grandparents on your family values?
I never knew my Grandparents but I learned things that they lived through my parents. Having both parents helped develop in me unbreakable values. Mom taught me to love unconditionally and Dad taught me to be masculine and strong. That’s why I strongly love my family and other people. My parents positively effected and affected every core value that I have.
3)Do you hope to pass your family values onto your children or hope they find their own?
Both. I hope they learn and value the things we value as a family like respect for and love for each other, following Jesus, church on Sunday. Commitment, faithfulness, support for each other.
4) What is missing in your surrounding and greater society in regards to family values?
Liberalism has perverted our society negatively effecting Biblical morals and values. We are taught secular humanism in our schools and throughout our culture wherein the individual is the center of all things. “Situational ethics” has replaced core values so that everyone does what seems right in their own heart. When we recognize and serve nothing higher then self then everything becomes self centered (liberalism) (secular humanism) and brings about the lack of esteeming others (family) higher then self. Commitment to family takes a lower place than self satisfaction.
5) Do you firmly believe your family values are the “right” way? If so, why?
Only those with an ideology on the “right” have them. The “left”, by their own definition is “liberal.” Liberal ideology means “those who reject absolutes, or living without absolutes.” The “left” is a lie because there are certain physical and spiritual laws (gravity, 10 commandments) that are absolutes. Family values require us to hold values and this requires us to be on the “right.” FAMILY VALUES ARE RIGHT, PROPER, MORAL, ACCURATE, SUITABLE, and give CORE and SECURITY to individuals. Yes, family values are the “right” way.
6) I hope this finds you questioning perhaps the biggest questions of all and that is how much of value is your life to you and those you love?
I don’t know how to measure this but I believe that I hold far less value to those whom I love than the value they are to me.