Lessons Learned The Hard Way

I never really know what I am going to find when I pull out an old notebook. I am about to place a Mary Kay order and my aunt asked me to look up a color eyeshadow and lipliner she used a few years ago, so I went to my notebook that held all my MK order stuff. I kept a list of the regular products my customers used so I could keep those products in stock. I haven't kept stock for a while, so it's been at least three to four years since I have been in this notebook. As I was looking through the pages for my aunts favorite stuff I discovered a list I had made in the back of this notebook's pages titled, Lessons Learned the Hard Way. It might have been up to seven years ago that this list was made.

So I thought I would share: (paranthesis and italics not in original list)

Lessons Learned the Hard Way 

1. Parents are not stupid

2. Teenage and young adult men usually are "dogs" (yet they will rise to the bar if the ladies will set them)

3. Love is not a feeling, it is a choice

4. Your sins really do find you out

5. Actions do have consequences

6. Marriage is work

7. Sex is for one woman and one man in marriage for one life

8. Real intimacy comes through communication and trust not sex

9. A guy cannot make me whole

10. A baby cannot make me whole

11. The borrower truly is slave to the lender

12. Friends usually are not "friends forever" (but there truly can be a forever faithful few in your life)

13. Absence does not make the heart grow fonder (physical absence with present consistent communication yes, but absence with zero communication, I still think no) 

14. The love of money really is the root of all evil

15. If your parents tell you they love you and never put you down in any way count your blessings (I never realized how special my parents were until I began ministering to youth through the Pregnancy Resource Center)

16. High School is really only a very very very small part of our entire life

17. God's way is the best way

18. Labor and delivery is the easy part

19. People are naturally bad we have to be taught how to be good and then choose to walk in it

20. Abortion is murder to an unborn child and a mother's spirit

21. Dating is overrated

22. Bad company does corrupt good morals

23. What you watch and hear does affect how you think and your thoughts eventually become your actions

24. I don't have all the answers

25. I am far from perfect and have too many logs in my own eye to condemn you over the splinter in yours

26. The devil is real and he does not like me

27. Jesus is real and he forgives completely those who ask and mean it and walk away from what they asked forgiveness for

28. You cannot hide from God

29. Words do hurt

So got any hard learned lessons to add to the list? 

If so add away :-)