“A security blanket is often thought of in connection to and with a very small child’s way of holding something that has a comforting effect to the child’s daily life. Now what this security blanket fully means differs with each child who experiences this habit.

Some children suck their thumb. Some children pinch other children. Some children use the security blanket or some other outward sign that shows some form of the child’s inability to stand alone or without attention from someone else.

Some people whine and get attention through this form of speech. Some people are boisterous, some are bullies, some are constantly on stage, some lie, some steal, some set fire to things, some make you repeat everything you say by saying, ‘Huh?’

So many people exist with habits that comfort them and only them, but in reality, sometimes bad habits, annoying habits, drive people away; that is, people who want more out of life than catering or being a security blanket. In other words, some people’s security blankets actually victimize other people in many ways.

Ask yourself, what was the most attractive thing about Our Lord, Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph when They walked the earth? It was the Purity that They radiated in Their daily life. Through Purity, They extended charity, genteelness, honor, dignity, responsibility and respect. Purity is more obvious than anything in the world, for purity shines like a light, it is as a beacon of security and it extends itself in many ways. Purity has a warmth, a sincerity, a stability, hope and love. The love that is shown by purity is outstanding because it does not lean on any weakness. There is nothing in it that victimizes another person.

True, a pure state of being seems impossible to reach, but it is only impossible because we allow ourselves to cling to whatever attracts our attention, distracting our sights on how we should sift what we see, do, say and think, from anything that is impure and causes us to find a security blanket in impure company, involvement, entertainment, personal relationship or self-love of any kind.

The light of purity gives life happiness, and fulfillment to our whole being when we think of something or someone as a person we respect as being clean in their thoughts, respectful in their dealings, genteel in their speech, appearance, and what they do and who they associate with.

We should all choose purity as our way of life, as our means of dealing with other people and the manner with which we handle our responsibilities. Then we will never need a false means as a security blanket to cover our inadequacies, our unethical approach to our responsibilities, or a cover-up to hide our weaknesses, for we will automatically resort to the assurance of our thinking only pure ways, with pure ideals, based on God’s Ten Commandments. If you must have a security blanket, use these Ten Commandments as your security blanket.”