Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

I went to a meeting today and the topic was “Humility”. As the shares went around the table I was disappointed that nobody spoke in depth about this topic and how it has impacted in their lives.  I think this is a difficult topic to articulate and therefore give credit back to those who only scraped the surface.

I spoke in depth today by saying that in the beginning as child I recalled my father correcting my brother and me for something we had done wrong that was consequential. He told us that we should be ‘humble’ after being scolded by him. Neither my brother nor I had ever heard this work spoken in our lives and it didn’t mean much. Dad asked us if we were feeling bad because for what we had done, or were we feeling bad because we were caught? Neither of us could answer the question.  The point is – we didn’t know what the word ‘humble’ meant.

I had felt humiliation from time to time in life when I had been proven wrong and always thought of it as a very uncomfortable feeling and a bad place to be. This feeling of humiliation would always conjure feelings or resentment directed to whomever ‘set me straight’.