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Integrity is it a principle, a quality or is it
something bought or borrowed?
Is it to be possessed or cultivated, grown or assimilated?
Is it to be applied to any give situation or worn like a coat?
I think it is best understood and not defined.
Not only a human characteristic but the essence of life,
permeating all things.
Life is in integrity by the mere fact that it exists.
If two men disagree can they not both still be in integrity as well as the same
two agree and not be?
More than interpretation of the facts, the current count, verbatim.
Not to be worked at, to strive for, these suggest something to toil over.
A labor of love is still labor.
Yet integrity will rise when not resisted.
It is our natural state, like cream to the surface, it is an inside job.
There is no vaccine, it can spread rapidly infecting
whole groups of people and situations when unchecked,
though some have built quite a resistance.
Some would say do not hide your secrets in the open,
they are secrets only to you,
we are to busy collecting our own to notice.
Integrity is not only for the honorable
though they recognize it in a shared space.
It is to be showered out,
like a nurturing rain upon the soil
caring little where it lands but benefiting all.
For the most barren it will bead on the surface as they resist,
being parched so long that it cannot be absorb easily,
but Nature and Life both take their natural course,
as should we.
It is not all folly.
I feel it starting to rain.
Jamar |
