Start Small

Am in the cluster again typing out my notes, and as it always is in the dead of night have been thinking back about things, and thinking about people, and just basically thinking.

Was thinking about the humility of some of the people in my life. They are capable of great things, yet seem to be content continually doing small ones, not trying to stand out in any way. They say little, but the little they say says alot. These people will be great people next time. You never know what is going on in their hidden lives, but you can see in their outer lives how little they think about themselves and how much of others, how little they want to reveal of themselves lest they boast, but you can see it anyway.

Beside these people I feel very small.

Humility is
knowing you are the same as everyone else
knowing you are as prone to falling as everyone else
seeing others as better than yourself
saying little, and yet encouraging through the little you say

All I can do is learn... through my mistakes, through watching the lives of others, through being willing to take a backseat, think big, start small, and build deep. *

*copyright of WL