Stumbling Back To Strength
You don’t stumble because you are weak, but because you think yourself strong.
Such all-or-nothing people we are. If we aren’t feeling woefully inadequate and worthless, then we tend to get a bit too full of ourselves and we start to think that we’re bullet-proof. But we’re not. How often and how painfully have we learned that it is our own thinking that is our biggest stumbling block? With some time in the program, it is very easy to get complacent-or over-confident. The increased self-esteem and mastery of living life on life’s terms that recovery fosters can indeed be very heady. But running with that headiness is just the sort of insidious self set-up that has caused more than a few of us to fall.
We have come to believe that haughtiness and humility are both part of the same dimension of human existence. When humans are too haughty, God brings them down low. When they are too humble, God raises them heavenward. Be humble in the presence of God. Yet keep your head upright. Know you are both “dust and ashes” and “a little lower than the angels.” Live a life reflective of both.