Hamish: Where are you going?
William Wallace: I’m going to pick a fight.
Hamish: Well, we didn’t get dressed up for nothing. – Braveheart

Like many of you, I believe in living for things that are greater than yourself.

Even if your other obligations keep you, like me, from spending every minute and dollar and calorie fighting for your chosen causes, they can still provide a framework for your life and influence the decisions you make the rest of the time. If you’ve read more than two posts on here or on my Facebook feed, you already know that I have lots of causes. Perhaps I drive you crazy with them, which makes me appreciate you all the more for putting up with me and my quests, pleas, guilt trips, and fundraising campaigns.

Here are a few things I believe in:

• Loving God and loving people
• Protecting the environment – using less, polluting less, being a good steward of the world God created rather than exploiting it for short-term gain
• Clean water and food for those who lack it
• Health care for all, not just those lucky enough to afford it or obtain it through work
• Education and job opportunity as a means of climbing from poverty and raising the standard of living for society overall
• Better health through better choices – exercise, higher quality food and drink, toxin avoidance
• Tolerance

Obviously, I don’t always support these goals with every choice I make. Every choice is a trade-off in some way. But I try to let them guide my decisions.

What are some of the things you believe in? What do you fight for?