Pride VS Humility

One of my favorite daily reading books is "Each Day a New Beginning" for women.  Below is one I read today and needed to read.

Pride, we are told, my children, "goeth before a fall" and oh, the pride was there, and so the fall was not far behind.  - Wilhelmina Kemp Johnstone.

Requesting help. Admitting we were wrong. Owning our mistake in either a big or small matter.  Asking for another chance or someones love.  All very difficult to do, and yet necessary if we are to grow.  The difficulty is our pride, the big ego. We think we need to always be right.  If we're wrong, then others may think less of us, look down on us, question our worth.  "Perfectionism" versus "worthlessness."

If we are not perfect (and of course we never are), then we must be worthless. In between these two points on the scale is "being human."  Our emotional growth, as women, is equal to how readily we accept our humanness, how able we are to be wrong.  With humility comes a softness that smooths our every experience, our every relationship.  Pride makes us hard, keeps us hard, keeps others away, and sets us up for the fall.

I will let myself be human today. It will soften my vision of life.