So what have I learned this past month?

I've observed lack of truthfulness, deception, and rule breaking in so many places. It makes one realize how easy it is for many to just "Go with the flow." Exaggeration, out right lying, cutting corners is every where. It's on our media, it's in our own relationships.

A temptation is an act that looks appealing to an individual. It is usually used to describe acts with negative connotations and as such, tends to lead a person to regret such actions, for various reasons: legal, social, psychological (including feeling guilt), health, economic, etc. Temptation also describes the coaxing or inducing a person into committing such an act, by manipulation or otherwise of curiosity, desire or fear of loss. (Wikipedia)

But there's clearly something else besides temptation. In fact isn't it "going with the flow" and getting "what I want now" regardless of the fairness of the thing. As Dr. Philip Zimbardo writes in his book "The Lucifer Effect," can we stand up for our principals and what we know is right when all around us is pressuring us to conform, to "Go with the flow?"

You'll need to find your own answer to this question, but faith in what is true and the "wholeness of truth" is where I make my stand.