Trust.

Often—actually, way too often—people say that (healthy) communication is the key to healthy relationships, but communication would be worthless without trust.  “Healthy” communication definitely be very difficult (or impossible) without trust.  Trust is fundamental to communication, to intimacy, & to every aspect of a relationship.  Without trust, love could still exist but in a non-mutual, one-sided way.  Love is the first part of understanding, which is essential to the keys to every aspect of life (Focus, Fervency, & Forgiveness).

Priorities.

What is on your itinerary?  (It should be based on your priorities.)

As for me & my house, our priorities adjust as we learn better but are generally like the following:

1st Priority:  Focus on God

1. Awaken
2. Yawn/stretch
3. Pray (talk with God)
4. Greet the people around us
5. Wash, prep, & groom
6. Eat breakfast after giving thanks to God

    ◦    Recognize that God is the standard for everyone & everything
    ◦    Recognize that God is love & that He Loves us more than anyone 
    ◦    Get understanding & learn that “fear of God is the beginning of wisdom” because God can do things that only He could undo (this includes Blessings, hardships, & Punishments)
    ◦    Learn that an oracle is an utterance of speech from God; Jesus Christ is the Word of God and that makes Jesus Christ the Oracle through Whom all of Creation was spoken into being
    ◦    Learn that a miracle is an act of God & that He can perform miracles through angels (messengers), vessels (people), animals, & things (such as weather & global warming) & that HE does not have to overrule the natural laws that HE Established (that a miracle does not have to defy science)
    ◦    Learn that Jesus Christ is the Way, Truth, the Life, & the Light.  No one comes to the Father except through Jesus Christ. The Father is God.  Jesus Christ Put on flesh (Came in human form) to Teach us understanding, to Show us His Way, to Instruct us to Guide one another to Him in spirit (not with religion), & to Sacrifice His Life for all who would Accept His Gift (Sacrifice) so that we can go to the Father rather than to the Devil. 
    ◦    Learn what “sins” are so that we can avoid “spiritual debts caused by thoughts, words, and actions that go against God & His teachings” (this is why God hates sin!)
    ◦    Learn what “abominations” are so that we can avoid “environments or patterns of behavior that confuse or blur the distinction of what is right & what is wrong” because such situations or behaviors trick people into sin, vex us (confuse & aggravate our hearts & perspectives), & entice people to misplace blame on God & others
    ◦    Learn what “temptations” are so that we can avoid what & who take away from us so that we can “feed who & what feed us” rather than the lures of shortcuts & workarounds to blessings taken out of context which would actually diminish or delay our actual blessings.
    ◦    Learn what “Faith” is so that we can properly focus this “blind, continual trust” in God rather than in others or things (such as the news, our education, ourselves, our technology, or our science)

2nd Priority:  Fervency (undying love for family & tribe)

    ◦    Learn that family is based on one’s bloodline & legal adoption
    ◦    Learn that tribe is one’s core team of people whom that person not only trusts but for whom that person protects, provides, & nurtures; & could include certain family members & friends
    ◦    Watch T. D. Jakes with family & tribe
    ◦    Vote

3rd Priority:  Forgiveness of personal debts/injustices

    ◦    Turn away from judging the hearts of ourselves & others
    ◦    Recognize that we are not the standard for how life should be (each of us falls short of it)
    ◦    Seek God’s forgiveness for sins known & unknown
    ◦    Repent from (turn away from) sinning & help others to do the same
    ◦    Learn that iniquity is addiction to sin & could come through abominations (such as associations with people who seek to manipulate us) & through addictions (such as drug abuse (sometimes referred to in older wording as sorcery))
    ◦    Trust is a currency for relationships & is not always required but always forgive.  God forgives us of our debts as we forgive our debtors. 
    ◦    Faith is a currency of worship and only has worth with obedient works because our works prove what we believe (fruit of our spirit)
    ◦    Love is the currency of the universe & is the cure for all that ails us when we love God because God is Love.  Not all love is God because loving sin would mean loving the Devil & is the reason why death became appointed to all of mankind (although there have been exceptions).