The story is told about a gung-ho drill sergeant who always demanded the best from his soldiers. One day he stared in pained disbelief at a sloppy squad of new recruits wearing their uniforms for the first time. For a moment the sergeant was speechless with rage. Then he screamed in frustration, "Just step out here and look at yourselves!"

Now, I don't know how he expected them to do that ” "step out and look at themselves" ” but his basic concept was on target. There is a time when all of us should step out and take a good, hard look at ourselves.

One of the convicted co-conspirators in the Watergate scandal made a remarkable confession: "I have lived fifty years of my life without ever really coming to grips with the very basic questions of what is and what is not important to me; what…