Calhoun, Part 6, HumilityQuote from page 191,
"Humility stems from having someone besides yourself as the center of your attention." Being addicted to self is part of the human condition. I liked the quote, "humility stems from an honest understanding of who we are.
1) Practice humility during the next week of Lent by not beginning sentences with "I", but with "you". For example, "I really enjoyed your sermon. I was so blessed!" could be reframed as, "You presented a very meaningful message on the humility and passion of Christ, God was glorified and the congregation was blessed!". First in reading my blog responces, there were a lot of I's in them. At church however this sunday, my responce to the Paster was that , 'he gave us much to think about." It is really hard not to use the "I" in talking or writing. This for me will be a challenge.
2) List the acts of service and kindness that you provided during the past week that no one noticed or affirmed.
As a women, there are many of the usual acts that no one seems to notice, cleaning the bathroom and shower, doing laundry, dishes, cooking, mail, etc. My children were fighting for the front seat in the van, I told the older one he can drive and the younger one he could sit in the front. This seems like such a small "act of kindness," but I didn't mind sitting in the back for a change. This week there seems to be a lot more hugs given out to kindergardner and other students at school than usual. Dr. Nisely, how do you want us to be humble when you ask us to list these acts of services? Just seems like we are bragging on ourselves.
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Good insight Lydia, listing our acts of humility and how it has impacted our journey is a bit of a paradox. My intent in this exercise is to share our acts of service with the class, not those we are serving.
One of the acts of service that I do once/week at night for the Seminary is to restock the heavy boxes of paper for the copiers and to empty the recycle container. There are several other small acts of kindness that I do behind the scene so that no one observes them. The point of these secret, subversive acts of kindness is to change our hearts from being self-oriented to other->God->oriented.
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