On My Honor

Presented at Circle Up – 2/4/2020

On My Honor. Every week we start out our meetings with these words and I suspect that some nights some of you just sort of mumble through them without giving them much thought. But what is honor?

The Scout Handbook says that honor is loyalty to high ideals. Webster’s Unabridged uses words like: ‘good name, reputation, excellence of character, high moral worth, nobleness, integrity, uprightness, trustworthyness’ in its definition.

However you define it, Honor goes to the very core of what you are. If you have it, everyone knows–they can tell it by your actions. And if you don’t have it–well, it’s equally obvious.

So when you say ‘On my honor, I will do my best’ and so on, you are pledging yourself to do the best you can. No half-measures or goofing off. You are saying that you will do it.

And I know that you will.