Values

Dear Lord please forgive all of our sins and please help us this day to find the paths to walk in deed and thought that will put us in the company of the Holy Spirit and may we please be guided and protected from the evils of this lustful world all the day long. Dear Lord please show us where to search for value as we live these moments of the time that You have given us, please bring us opportunities to find the values that will flow from the vessels of sincere unselfish friendships, and please lead us to understand that the adversities that threaten these vessels of love only make them of more value. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings that You have given us, and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen. 

Quotation:*
The identifying of values to which we can all give allegiance is a light preliminary exercise before the real and heroic task: to make the values live.  Values have been carved on monuments and spelled out in illuminated manuscripts.  We do not need more of that.  They must be made to live in the acts of men. --John Gardner 

KJV* 
Job 28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. 

Mr 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 
Mr 8:37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 

Mt 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Mt 13:45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: 
Mt 13:46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.