Why sometimes does it seem impossible to measure up? You can always find someone "smarter," "holier," more "beautiful," more "stylish," more "classy," more "feminine," more "sweet," more "patient," more more more more... You can always find someone MORE than yourself!
Why aren't we OK with that? What is it in us humans that makes us cringe at that idea... that we are not superior in something... not even globally but in our own smaller communities... schools, parishes, towns, goverments, trades... there seems to be an inner drive to not just exceed but to beat out the competition.
This drive is so evident in some and in the rest of us it slithers underneath our motives, our reactions and our judgments of others. To be worth what we feel is required or necessary we must be on top. If not by the world's standards or even that of a specific society... then by those we love and cherish the most... our family, friends, loved ones.
Humility is such a sweet and sour gift to us. All the above statements are the tip of the iceburg for why we need to grow in this virtue... to know ourselves in Light of Our God... and the constitute all things in that Light...
World, what should we be striving for...
That others may be loved more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
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Great post! That's one thing I've been falling into a lot lately. I guess it's just so hard to remember we are called to be humble when it seems like the world is always pushing us to compete: for colleges, for jobs, for opportunities. The world is so quick to rank us, to hand out superlatives, to tell us where we stand amongst our peers. It's so easy to get caught up in it all. We forget that we aren't called to be recognized or "the best", we are meant to be our best selves and to put ourselves last.
"But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding."
2 Corinthians 10:12
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