Monday, June 16, 2008

Humble?

The hardest part about humility is getting over the appearance of weakness. After that, humility comes easily. As soon as thoughts about "my rights" or "my pride" or "my worth" start coming into the equation things get all muddied up. To assume I have to rights, to assume I have no pride, to assume I have no value all sounds weak willed. Where is the character in that? Or maybe I'm still just placing too much of my value in other people's hands. Do I find myself valuable? Do I think I have anything to be proud of? Do I create anything worth while?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

As found in Webster’s on line = Humility is the state of being humble. Webster's 1913 dictionary uses terms such as "modest", "not high or lofty" and "not pretentious or magnificent" to define humility.
In Christianity, humility, or meekness, is seen as a virtue, encompassing three skills:
1) Yielding ones rights and possessions to God,
2) Earning the right to be heard rather than demanding a hearing, and
3) Responding properly to anger when others violate one's personal rights.

Some other schools of thought, such as Objectivism, have seen it as a weakness.

- I like the three skills listed, I'm not giving to much to the other schools of thought. The definition I have always favored the most = strength under control...preferably His not mine.

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