Boasting: Is There A Limit?
"He thinks the sun comes up just to hear
him crow." — Charles Martin
With boasting, I often contemplate whether it's due on insecurity or any other quality or feeling that is desiring to be dealt with. I can't blame everything on insecurity, but it's always clear that constant boasting about oneself is due a lack of something...
Let me give you an example and let's call this person Joe. Joe will talk about his life. I will listen. I will give advice and we are pretty much set to enter into a new topic....but wait, no, Joe's not yet done, he continues. It's okay to continue, but this time, instead of being 'real' and honest, something takes over and Joe starts talking about how great he is, what he has, what he has done and who he has done it with (no pun intended).
"Oh Joe..." I think "You were so good....until now"...
Learning.
I'm learning things in ways I never thought I'd learn them before...
God has a way to make you into a better person and He's constantly showing me how to change...
He does it in a way that's so perfect that I sometimes wonder why I hadn't changed a long time ago.
I'm learning that each day is like taking a walk...you put one foot in front and then you put the other foot forward. The key aspect is that you do things one at a time.
If I serve the author of time, why can't I trust according to His time?
Like I said, I'm learning things in ways I never thought I'd learn them before...
One day I'm going to look back and smile...I'll smile because I had to learn to let go of my own ways and to learn to trust in ways I've never trusted before...all for the greater good of becoming a better person.
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