Core Values

October 13core values,peeling paint

 I am thankful for core values. That is, assuming that we all have some sort of good values which are deeply implanted in us. I think that we all do to some extent. The key is to try to enhance them and bring them out. Core values are the foundation upon which our character is built. If we have good core values, they will remain no matter what happens to us on the outside. Even when our lives, our health, our dreams are crumbling around us, we will still have those values which will make us stay true to what is "right". In the Bible Jesus talked about the foundation upon which a house is built. The one that is built on sand erodes; the one built on solid ground stands firm. So it is with good solid core values.

This is a picture I took in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, of a door which has peeling black paint on the outside but has a firm "core" of reddish paint underneath, which is unblemished. I thought this was a good representation of good core values which hold firm even though on the outside everything is falling apart.

paint

my house has been painted

so many times and many more

i see colors of white, beige, and pink

layers and layers to the core

a hail storm damaged one color

and another one was so scarred

by a hurricane that came and went

another by a fire was charred

yet on the inside layer

i look and am very pleased to see

the primer coat is undamaged

it has held strong many years for me

i realize that the many times

i painted without a strong undercoat

that i was foolishly wasting time and effort

if only a little time to devote

to making the foundation much stronger

and to strengthening of the core

my paint jobs would have lasted longer

and held strong for many years more.

© rt tulley