On Pride

IF you can ever find it in yourself to swallow your pride . . . it will make a huge difference in your life.

The lump in your throat as it goes down will only hurt for a little while.

But you will be so glad you did.

First pride, then the crash–the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.

It’s better to live humbly among the poor than to live it up among the rich and famous.

Proverbs 16:18, 19 MSG

On Memories and Remembering

memory: n. the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained, especially through associative mechanisms.

remember: v. to bring to mind or think of again; to retain in the memory.

I don’t want to ever forget this. I want to remember it for as long as I live. This, my prayer after receiving an amazing God blessing, one where He touched my life in ways above and beyond what I could every imagine.

But what did I do? I forgot. And that is the point of this essay.

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