What Honestly Matters to Us

People matter. The people we work for. The people we work with. The people we share community with. The people you’re trying to reach. The people you’re not.

Integrity matters. To succeed at fudging, lying, or gouging is to have a very worrisome definition of success. Where there is no honesty, there can be no honest communication. Where there is no honest communication, there can be no understanding. And where there is no understanding, there can be no community, and no high standard of love.

Laughter matters. Chuckles can crumble walls, and wide-open guffaws can polish perspective like nothing else. Shared joy is one of the greatest acts of generosity.

The poor, the dispossessed, and the suffering matter. To know of their struggles and simply shake our heads is to sadly identify ourselves as soulless. When the orphans cry, there is no moral choice except to cross heaven and hell and pick them up.

God matters. Not as a decoration or as a fable, but as a Father. He not only matters, but decides what matters. And it’s His list that we’re quoting above.