How does an honorable man handle pain and disappointment? Stephen Mansfield writing in Mansfield's Book of Manly Men has some suggestions worth sharing:
Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter.
Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong.
Honorable men don’t build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction.
Honorable men seek out the highest definition of their lives, the nobler meaning granted by heritage, by their ancestors’ dreams and their parents’ hopes.
Honorable men cry out to God until curses are broken and a grander purpose is achieved.
Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.
It's easy to let the difficulties of life wear us down. Life can be hard and painful. But the path of honor leads us always upward.
Lord, let my heart seek always the grander purpose written in your heart for me.
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