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A deacon, who was full of himself, was teaching a boy Sunday School class.
He was working hard to stress the importance of living a Christian life.
With an air of arrogance he asked, "Why do people call me a Christian?"
After an awkward silence one of the little guys said, "Maybe it's because they don't know you."
After an awkward silence one of the little guys said, "Maybe it's because they don't know you."
What do those people who do know you call you? We both are talked about all the time by people around us who range from friends to acquaintances.
The
story goes that the admiral, looking out from his command post on the
deck looked out and saw lights in the distance, clearly heading straight
for him.
He
radioed the message ahead: “Turn aside, 10 degrees starboard.” The
radio beeped back – “Negative. Advise you turn aside 10 degrees
starboard.”
Furious, the admiral radioed back: “No, you turn aside. I am an admiral I am in command of a battleship”
The message was returned: “I am a private. And I am in charge of this lighthouse”
Pride and arrogance are prisons in which we lock ourselves away from any ongoing peace.
It
is a highway that leads us straightway to wrong headed behavior because
if we suffer these two maladies we come to believe we are above the
rules and regulations and moral codes others believe it is good and
necessary to live by.
The famous actor Gregory Peck once was standing in line with a friend, waiting for a table in a crowded Los Angeles restaurant.
They
had been waiting for some time; the diners seemed to be taking their
time eating, and new tables weren't opening up very fast.
They
weren't even that close to the front of the line. Peck's friend became
impatient, and he said to Gregory Peck, "Why don't you tell the maitre
d' who you are?"
Gregory Peck responded with great wisdom. "If you have to tell them who you are, then you aren't."
Augustine spoke of an antidote for the sickness called pride. he said, "Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the future to God’s providence."
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