Pride crops up in the stupidest places. I've been reading the Bible
regularly. If I keep the pace I'm going at, I'll have read it through at
least twice this year. That's a good thing, and excellent thing. God's
been really really good that way. But it's so easy to feel better than
others because of that. It's stupid. I KNOW I didn't do anything to get
there. It just so happened that I had my bible and lunch in the car on a
break at work at the same time, and I started reading. And I know it's
been God who's kept me reading. But it's so easy to feel better than
people who don't...
Today, I was talking with my counselor about
what I find "flow" in. (basically, flow is when you're so wrapped up in
something you forget yourself and the world around you). I find it in
snowboarding and listening/playing music. He made the observation that
it's more commonly found in more sterile environments. TV, video games,
etc. And I KNOW that I used to be that way. I know that. But I felt
proud that I was more connected to reality than that...It's absurd how
insidious pride is. It dogs good things and then leaps at the
opportunity to distort them...Would that I were actually humble...
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