“In daily living, no matter what our vocation in life is, there are certain human behaviors that we must project to other people and that we receive from other people. Politeness is one.

Many times our speech or actions demand us to be discreet. We appreciate genteelness in our dealings with other people, and we always feel strength when respect is part of a social association, a business association, or even a family association. There is confidence when intelligent conversation can be uplifting to one’s thinking or to one’s problems, or to just even ordinary conversation that passes the time of day. Good manners make us feel that there is kindness, respect, and a sincere feeling of responsibility between human relationships.

We instinctively expect and enjoy all the above human behavioral patterns and we find ourselves feeling more pleasant in our association with people when everything is associated with a sound moral attitude, aptitude, motive and motivation.

If all these things are strengthening to our human needs and our moral connection to living our daily lives with a feeling of the necessity of human respect, then we must look at a Higher part of our life that automatically demands us to force our attention on the Purpose for which we were born, and look at this Purpose as a Sacred Gift from God, to use all we are, all we know to be morally sound, as the basic structure, as the basic foundation for our Goal He intended for our Soul, SAINTHOOD.

We must learn to concentrate on what we hold Sacred, what practices we make it a habit to do in God’s Name for the sake of our Soul. If we would but learn to replace all the emphasis on our impressions of our likes and dislikes, ignore our depressions over other people’s indifference to us, arrogance, ignorance, or lack of understanding regarding us, we could make use of this time to prepare our mind, body and Soul for Holiness.

Questions we should ask ourselves daily as we are just thinking idle thoughts, doing nothing constructive, and perhaps even feeling a little sorry for ourselves, should be questions of constructive moral views and practices.

1. Have I thought about God’s Ten Commandments today? Have I offended God in any one of Them? If so, do I intend to correct what I have offended Him by or with, and have I decided to make reparation for this offense or these offenses?

2. Do I truly feel I understand God’s Ten Commandments and the benefit They are to me as the Guidelines to reach Holiness?

3. Have I offered my day to God, asking Him to guide my senses, my will, my steps, so that the day will be counted as a day that brought me closer to God, not further away? If I had to meet Him Face to face in a moment’s time and He asked me about how I spent the day, would I be proud of what I had to say or would I be ashamed to confess how I did not hold the day Sacred, but I offended Him in every way?

4. Did I allow my insecurity to follow what was wrong, in laughter, in remarks, in places I would enter, forgetting that I had been born to look at the Sacred Side of life, not just the human side of life, and that the Sacred Side was more important for my Soul?

5. Sacred matters are not just bound to the walls inside of a church. Sacred matters are as much a part of our life as our breathing, or our personal needs. Have I considered silently talking to God, to Our Heavenly Mother, in my own words, telling Both of Them how grateful I am for the privilege of what my Faith gives me, the strength to go on in times of need, the courage to face obstacles, and the knowing I have Someone to depend upon, to go to when I am troubled about anything?

6. Do I look for excitement to stimulate my senses because I feel I am a human being and need such avenues for particular reasons, or do I realize that I must shed these things from my mind and replace them with thoughts that can only strengthen my will to seek God’s Love, God’s Way for me?

7. Do I realize that the human life is a treasury that God has given me, to store, to accumulate, and to use on my behalf what I can account to Him for, either in Holiness, or be condemned to eternal damnation?

To live a life striving to please God in a Sacred, humble, loving, serving, dedicated, committed way, is not to rob one’s self of life, but in its very essence gives life more meaning, more value, and in no way does it say you are not to live a full life, but it does say you are to live a moral life based on God’s Ten Commandments, using all the other advantages of Spiritual life to aid you, to guide you, to direct you, to counsel you, to correct you, so that striving in every way to please God will make you a follower of God, not a follower of man.

The word ‘Sacred’ has a beauty to it, a hope in it, a Light of Divine Direction in it. Why sacrifice a life of beauty, fulfillment and Sainthood for a life that can be only a life of Hell?”