Humility…. defined in another page…. recognizing who you truly are.

This doesn’t mean knowing what you want to be doing – if you aren’t really doing it.  I want to serve community – but if I am not even involved in community – how can I think of myself highly for wanting to?

Or when I do nice things for someone else…. why am I really doing it?  If you ask yourself – are your motives totally pure? selfless?

For me, I could give you countless examples from my own life of wanting to do nice things for people.  I could also give you examples of nice things I have done for people.  But the real question comes back to…. what was my motive?

There are times that my motive has been to retain the relationship that I desire to have.  If I do this or that, then they will not question my “loyalty” to them and the relationship will remain unchanged.  Is this true? Sure, on some level it is true – but what I struggle with is this…. What is my true motive?

Do I do this or that – because I want to do this or that?  Or do I do these things I do for another reason. This is, I think, one of the greatest social challenges we deal with on a day-to-day basis.  We call these actions different things, i.e. “business”, “maintenance”, “obligatory.”  But when was the last time you actually did something with pure motives?

Think about it.