Honesty Is...

Following is my 10-year-old daughter's description of honesty. After reading it, I was amazed at her insight and understanding. Quite honestly, she understands honesty more than most of us adults. Enjoy!

Honesty is the color of orange like a burning hot fire.
It tastes like sweet, melted sugar in your mouth.
It smells like a beautiful chrysanthemum in the open spring field.

For fun, it likes to jump into people's heads and remind them to be honest.
When children lie to their parents, it gets angry.
It becomes sad when lies develop in people's hearts.
But when someone is honest even when it's hard, that makes it happy.

Honesty is smaller than trust because you need to trust somebody to be honest.
But it is bigger than love because you need to be honest to love somebody.
Lying is its enemy.
But forgiveness is its friend.

Honesty keeps truthfulness in a secret place, for friendships are ruined with lies.
Its favorite place is in an honest person's heart.
But it hates to be in the middle of a sabotaged friendship.
Fixing a friendship with truthfulness is its greatest success.
But when friends lie to each other, that is its greatest failure.

Honesty makes me feel happy and knows that I am trustworthy.