Humility

 

Cultivate humility.

To be exalted is to be in danger.

 

One lesson in sports we all learn is “no one can win all the time.” It is a life lesson as well, as a life based on triumph over others will never fulfill. As we meditate this week consider your life and ask yourself how much of it is based on getting ahead, acquiring more, and/or a desire for perfection. If it is, there will come a point when there is either defeat or no more mountains to climb. What then?

 

Humility teaches us not to add, but to take away. In one of God’s many paradoxes, the way to obtain perfection is to free from any desire for it.

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About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.