Undying LOYALTY!!!

First off today, I want to give a word out to Darrin Swanson, my brother in law, who is recovering from surgery, and I want him to know I am thinking and praying for him! Get well bro! I want to also single out my next door neighbors, Mark and Jody Nordman for helping with all they can around our house while I have been gone. Jody I know you are recovering yourself! We are very blessed to have you as our friends! Thank you!!! BTW, new pics are up!
OK, now we can transition into our lesson for the day, LOYALTY!!!!!
Alright, this one is going to be tricky to explain, because by definition you can use the meaning for good or evil, depending on where your heart lies. The MW definition states that LOYALTY is a faithful allegiance to a government, organization, or private person. TRADOC says that it is the thread that binds our actions together and causes us to support each other, our subordinates, superiors, family, and country!! Here is the tricky part. We choose to support what we know, and think is right for us! Well, if you don't have the qualities I have explained in the past 3 lessons then LOYALTY becomes just a hollow thought, because if you choose your people to be LOYAL to and they don't have the utmost qualities and trust, then are you making the right choice of LOYALTY? You will get burned in the end! Believe me, it WILL happen! If you are normal person who becomes part of group and you hang out with them enough, and only adhere to the way they think, and then you decide to come out of your shell and WOW there is a different point of view once you see the light! Now you were LOYAL to them when you were part of their clique, but now that you decided to spread your wings, they pretty much dump on you and think you are the ones with issues, even though they are stuck inside their shells they can't break out of them, because in some cases they could not survive in an environment they can't control! It is to their benefit to be LOYAL to their shell mates! So the LOYALTY one shows is also up to their value choices, but you are safer if you take into account if others have those same qualities. Now, if you take Pat as an quick example again, Pat chose to be LOYAL when she was at her great company, always making her decisions that would help everyone in her great company succeed according to what they laid out! She showed faithful allegiance to the company, based on what was best for them. Now the problem was when Pat decided to be faithful to her health and family, and not specifically only Pats cult oops.....company, Jo her boss, once again becomes irate that Pat would be DISLOYAL to Jo and be LOYAL to somebody but Jo. The problem is the opposite of LOYALTY would be shown when Pat spread wings and flew! See, everybody back at the great company where Jo works now has kept there LOYALTY to Jo, no matter if Pat did the right thing or not! Everybody where Jo is was totally DISLOYAL to Pat, and now Jo is still in control!
So the moral of the story is choose LOYALTY, and follow it through, and CHOOSE CAREFULLY!!!!
Wow, it's snowing so I had better hit the slopes!
Later,
Erik