Humility

Moving Past Our Dreams — I had a career goal that took six years of preparation, and it crashed and burned within 3 years of take-off. What was that six years of preparation for? At least I learned something about myself, my weaknesses in particular. As a believer in divine providence, I wondered what good…

There aren’t many tall buildings in my city or that many cafes. We don’t have valets and chauffeurs, or reception desks at the entrance of our homes, or phone apps that permit people to enter into residential premises. I had hardly ever used an elevator. So when I walked into…

You don't need a decade of research to spot them. Their antics are glaring. — The Masqueraders in any society are those people who disguise their true identity under a false outside. They believe in the facade and not the natural substance, so they peddle a falsified image of themselves for social acceptance. They are pretenders, so you must watch out. Masqueraders could take various…

The Archangels Answer the Question — I mentioned in an article earlier this week that one of my gifts is self-confidence. When I was younger, you might have described me as cocky. A professor once told my son that the difference between being cocky and being self-confident is about twenty years. …

A dose of humility goes a long way to release us from strongholds of compulsion, complaining, resentment and griping….. 2 Chronicles 12 v 6–8: “The king and the leaders of Israel humbled themselves and said, ‘The Lord is right in doing this to us!’ When the Lord saw their change of heart, he gave this message to Shemaiah: ‘Since the people have humbled themselves, I will not completely destroy them and will soon give them some relief. I will not use Shishak to pour out my anger on Jerusalem. But they will become his subject, so that they can learn how much better it is to serve me than to serve earthly rulers.’”

Be open to change. Invest in probabilities and accept new data as it arrives What’s going in the stock market? I see many signs that point to an impending recession, but the market keeps going up. Are the recession signs wrong? Is the market wrong? Am I reading the data…

A couple weeks ago, I shared a story about a conflict that someone had with her mother-in-law. A key learning from that story was that sometimes, we think we are totally right and the other person is clearly at fault. But if we were more humble and wise, we would…

Examine the disturbing truth tucked away in the show of feathers. — Let’s get straight to it, shall we? You don’t strut around peacocking yourself to the world if you’re truly secure in your skin. You just don’t. It’s the human equivalent of a dog rolling onto its back, exposing its belly — a deeply-rooted, biological signal of vulnerability masked as grandiosity…

A fading teal green low ceiling faces a wide window. And I wish it was a mirror, not to see myself, but to open up the space. You can’t legislate morality so you have to do the unfathomable and believe there are other believers. Coming together and breaking apart, so…