Have you ever been around someone who is so taken with his own importance that he thinks he is a legend in his own mind? He is full of pride. He or she could be a child or an adult and after a while, you get tired of being around this person or this child.
There was someone who has said, "Pride grows like lard on a pig." Wow! That's a very fitting description. Those who are proud draw attention to themselves or try to make other people's lives revolve around them.
They want the center of attraction and attention.
Let me tell you a little story.
There was a frog who envied the ability of geese to fly. One day he convinced two geese to put a strong stick between their beaks. He told them that they could fly in close formation with the stick firmly between them.
He suggested that once he put his mouth on the stick they can start flying out.
Then with his mouth, he firmly grabbed the stick and the geese took off.
The frog was flying! The first to defy the law of gravity. However, when the geese flew over a village, the people looked up in amazement.
"What a clever frog!" they exclaimed. "We've never seen the frog fly before. Whoever devised such an ingenious way for a frog to fly?"
But of course, the frog could not resist the impulse of pride. Right away he opened his mouth and said, "I did! ...Ahhhhhh!" Opening his mouth to claim the applause, he let go of his clenched-mouth grip on the stick. Pride went before the fall.
We think the opposite of pride is humility and yet how quickly we become proud of being humble. Pride is a poison that pervades our being. It requires a daily antidote. The purging of the antidote is radical.
It begins its work when we admit to ourselves that pride is an idol in our hearts. Pride is really trying our emptiness with self-love. When we are filled with pride, we will end up in the audience rather than being the producer and director of our own play.
So many relationships ended up broken because of pride be it family, personal or professional No one seems to admit their faults and continue to evade the wrong that they have done.
It is just as easy to apologize, say sorry if you had done inappropriate behavior rather than let it linger on and eventually cause the condition worst than what it was.
We have heard so many family members who had neglected to make amends and ended up feeling guilt afterward when the other party passed away. That is a serious situation. Peace will never be achieved by that other person involved.
Pride will cost you everything and leave you totally with nothing and then feeling sorry for yourself after. It is always a matter of choice.
What about you? Do you know of anyone like this frog above?
Do you have to make amends with anyone that you keep putting off?
Would a simple, "I'm sorry" be hard for you to say just to make peace?
My dear WA Family, thank you for your precious time reading this blog and hope you had taken out something of grave importance that can be applied to your own life or the life of others.
Be well, be kind and be at peace.
God bless you all.
I love you all dearly.
Elizabeth
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