I believe that the defense of our country is sacred. I believe that my purpose in life is to support this defense. I believe that all people are born good. I believe that I am searching for who I place ultimate trust in. I believe that I forge life-giving relationships by being vulnerable. I believe that I am responsible for the well-being of my family. I believe that I grow by exercising more control over my life.
My first two beliefs work hand in hand so I shall discuss them together. I believe that these are rooted in who I am, and draw from, and understanding how my background and who I am through my week 6 poem enforces why I feel this. I grew up in a family where selflessness is a paramount virtue along with responsibility. Given that I also grew up and embraced the Boy Scout lifestyle I think that is why I believe these things. Who I am right now and how I grew up are most reflected in these beliefs. Furthermore, drawing on what I came to understand while composing my week 5 QQC, I feel that God, in conjunction with preventing me from going to the Air Force Academy, intended to still deepen and confirm these feelings during my time here. I believe that this is why I believe that the defense of our country is sacred and why supporting it is my purpose in life. 
My belief in why all people are born good can I feel is best found in my week 4 and 7 QQCs. I feel that we are predisposed to be kind to one another, only with the creation of barriers like cliques do we feel the need to be mean to others. I have come to realize that while cliques can build community in a microcosm environment like a public high school, they create insular worldviews for those who join or recognize them. Insular worldviews can create a need to exalt oneself over those who don’t satisfy the given worldview. I also believe that these insular worldviews can be a reason for not confronting one’s inner demons and living more wholeheartedly. Being insular leads to someone a feeling of completeness, which is unachievable in human form, and therefore unjust, and leads us to stray from the good path. I believe that someone’s environment and culture are what create these insular feelings and further enforce why I believe all people are born good. 
I believe that I might have trust issues, hence why I am searching for who I can place ultimate trust in, to be completely open and vulnerable to them. I am a very private person, I probably value it a little too much. That being said, I feel that despite having been encouraged to be vulnerable many times, I cannot be truly vulnerable because I do not trust those around me. As I discussed in my week 1 QQC I was given a similar opportunity to be vulnerable with people I had never met before when I was 16. I also feel that while I have been initially vulnerable with those around me I have not felt vulnerability has been reciprocated, hence why I posed my question in week 4. I feel that although I can be rather vulnerable with my mother I care too much about how she perceives me to be truly vulnerable. 
I do believe that being vulnerable is how I can forge life-giving relationships. The four people I have the strongest relationships with are people I’ve been willing to be vulnerable with and had that a lesser vulnerability has been reciprocated. These relationships are with my best friend growing up, my biological half-brother, my mother, and a friend I made at the aforementioned camp. I think that this affirms my question from week 4. I feel that while I have work to do to strengthen these relationships that it falls more upon the other person to strengthen them, with the exception of my mother. I believe that in order to do this I must draw upon my faith in these people more as they have proven to me that they can be trusted. 
My belief that I am responsible for my family comes from growing up as the man of the house. I believe that part of integrating my faith in my life is manifesting what I believe God has intended for me. I believe that He sent me here to deepen my relationship with Him because I recognized that it was rather weak. I believe that this is where He wants me to learn who I truly am. I believe that being a father will be the greatest way I will make my faith manifest. Our world is very hectic and chaotic, and the choice to bring a child into that world is putting an immense amount of faith in God. One must believe He has your well-being in mind because of the gravity of this decision. I believe that this is how I fulfill what I felt was unfulfilled when I wrote my week 3 QQC. 
I believe that I will grow when I exercise more control over my life. My greatest sin growing up was my greed, made evident by my unsatiated thirst for accolades. I wanted to hog all the glory in the world for myself. Once I got over my unhealthy obsession with this, which stemmed from my relationship with my biological mother, I found myself in between a rock and a hard place. I had no general direction and I had no desire to find one, I had become passive. I feel that overcoming that obsession was me coming to a place similar to the one I envisioned when I wrote my week 2 QQC, I just hadn’t realized it yet. I don’t know what to do right now, I have found a desire but no compass to put me on the right course. I feel that I need to reclaim the passion I had when I was obsessed with accolades, but utilize this passion for good and with a healthy mindset.