Respect, Gratitude, and Morality

• Respect involves valuing the needs, feelings, and gifts of others.
• Affirmation is recognizing the importance of someone or something.
• Gratitude is consciously choosing to appreciate what one receives.
• Generosity is sharing one's resources and personal qualities with others.
• Free will is the capacity to make deliberate and thoughtful choices about one's actions.
• Conscience is the internal compass that distinguishes right from wrong and good from evil.
• Emotions are feelings experienced in response to the surrounding world.
• Valor is the strength needed to confront challenges.
• Confidence is rooted in self-understanding and valuing one's God-given identity.
• Personality is the combination of traits and characteristics that shapes emotional experiences and responses.
• Morality refers to the goodness or evil of human actions.

Concepts

• Experiencing true happiness is linked to practicing gratitude and generosity.
• Individuals have a responsibility to educate and heed their conscience.
• Counsel is the Gift of the Holy Spirit enabling sound judgment.
• The morality of an action is determined by its goodness or evil.
• The conscience serves as an internal guide for discerning good from evil.
• There is a moral obligation to continuously educate one's conscience through learning and reflection.
• Moral decision-making involves a three-step process where the action should not be done if determined morally evil at any step.
• The first step in moral decision making is determining if the action is morally good or evil.
• The second step in moral decision making is examining the intent behind the action to ensure it is morally good.
• The third step in moral decision making is assessing if the circumstances surrounding the intent are morally good.
• Intent and circumstances are crucial factors in determining the morality of an action.
• Roots provide stability and nourishment.
• Wings symbolize the freedom to explore.
• Personality shapes how life is experienced and managed
• Emotions are neither inherently good nor bad.
• Acting upon emotions result in actions that can be judged as good or bad.