But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness. 1 Timothy 6:11, NET Bible)
Pursuit of
righteousness. Righteousness---synonymous with rectitude.
Rectitude
was the word I heard last night from the monotone ”reading” voice on my audio
iBook. It’s the word I remembered this morning as I struggled to awaken after a
“short” night of sleep.
The struggle
started last night as I was still awake in the wee hours because sleep had
alluded me….probably because I had continued page turning in a book whose topic
greatly disturbed me.*
One of my
insomnia tactics is to listen to a work of non-fiction read by a monotonous
voice in order to push out thoughts that are keeping me awake, thus lulling me
to sleep. Even as I was lulled to sleep, that word, rectitude, stayed with me.
Strong moral
principals to guide my loved ones’ thoughts and actions are always upper most
in my desires for their lives. However, I know that rectitude cannot be
legislated.....but it can certainly be modeled in the early years and prayed for in
the latter.
A cuppa
rec-TEA-tude.
May my
children and their spouses sip such and serve it to their own children tempered with the milk of God's word and the fruits of righteousness.
