Humility Brings Peace of Mind

There is nothing more frustrating than trying to teach someone how to avoid the consequences that you have already learned about from sad experience. Then to have them say, "I know, I know..." then proceed to do exactly, exactly what you did until you humbled yourself.

Humility, can save us heartache and pain if we allow it to work within us. We were not sent into mortality to figure everything out on our own. God gave us parents to show us an example of how or how not to do things. If you see your parents are not happy then you should investigate exactly what it might be that makes them not happy. I can guarantee that humility will not be on the list of things that do not make them happy.

When I say humility, I do not subscribe to the woeful countenance, self depreciating, and depressing brand of humility. I subscribe to the willingness to admit what you do not know, willingness to admit what you do know, and understanding who you are as a child of God brand of humility. You do not have to denigrate yourself in order to appear humble. When we are more concerned about looking humble we often lose true humility. The desire to appear is born of a fear and of vanity, and vanity is born of pride. Pride is the opposite of humility.

When you lack humility it is a sign of insecurity. Insecurity leads to fear and fear leads to the dark side... When you get rid of those insecurities you do not have to fear what you do not know, but you find peace in learning what you do not know.