A recipe for humble pie.
- One part confidence
- Two servings of elbow grease (substitutes: midnight oil, blood, sweat, and tears, or for the really adventurous, some fingers worked to the bone)
- A pinch of skill
- Top with a whole heap of of servitude.
Humility is the passion of one who serves. A steward of good.
But the humble do not think they are talentless or less skilled than others.
They are confident in their principles and valiant in their fight for them.
Their humility is not shown in deference, it is shown in service and hard work to help others.
It is not a mindset of inability, but one of great awareness of their ability, a strong desire to cultivate that ability, combined with a duty to serve others with those abilities.
The humble are not cowards, incapable of decision.
The humble are not followers, seeking guidance from the world's anointed.
The humble are not entitled.
The humble are known debtors, willingly paying their love, their skills and their attention to others to whom they owe it.
But the greatest of those who are humble do not simply put on heirs of humility, pretending as one who serves.
The great humble know that their humility is deeper than an action of service or a worldly transaction, yielding social or monetary value.
The great humble seek to not act as humility, but to know it.
Humility is a great principle.
Let's find it. Be thankful, eat some humble pie, serve others (not the humble pie, that's for you...unless they ask for it, then serve it up!), seek the internal. Happy Thanksgiving.
