Profound sadness

I have learned of a recent loss in our community in the senior citizen age category. It fills me with profound sadness.

I am waiting the traditional one-day period where I allow family to be notified before telling the general public about it. Only in rare cases do I stray from that, and I don't feel the need to do that.

What I'd like you to do if you read this is to think about the men and women in your life who live life with an extremely high level of integrity. I know so many who fit that mold. I hold them in such high regard, and some days I feel like that level of integrity is vanishing from society right in front of our eyes. When thinking of these people with lives filled with integrity, both living and deceased, I sit and wonder how to raise children to have that same level of integrity. It seems like an impossible task in today's world.

Proverbs 4:25-27 says, "Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil."

Integrity: the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.

Integrity is a quality that every human must work on, whether young or old. I know many senior citizens who have it down to a science. They've lived a life of integrity. Made mistakes? Sure. We all do. We're all imperfect humans. We are all sinners. But we all have a duty to strive to live a life of integrity on a daily basis.

Our kids are watching us adults, and we need to set the right example.