Arrogance…
A trap I fall into very easily…
When you are on a good run in life, your inner ego can move to the exterior and have a negative effect. I find it easy to replace your faith with your ego in your thoughts and your faith becomes a lie on the outside.
I have been around some great people this year. I spent a weekend at a retreat with my friend John and was able to experience great conversations with great men. But an easy trap is to fall back on the content of the conversation, story instead of the person you shared it with. Pull that one line/idea out of the conversation and run wild with it and start more conversations based on it.
I believe this data/information all helps sharpen you a little bit. But we need to check the core of why we share it. I often catch myself sharing it because there is only one other guy in my community who was there and that gives me a sense of power, ownership on the idea…
I don't believe this means I need to keep the information to myself, but I do think that in conversations with close friends, reading blogs, I see arrogance in my tone as well as others and something needs to change, the core of why we share, why I share needs to be straightened out. It needs to grow from the heart, not from other places. It needs to be faith centered, not ego centered. It needs to be love centered, not controversy centered. My struggles need to be love centered, becuase the struggles are a part of me and I need to love that. My feelings need to be love centered, the good and the bad…
For pure love is not arrogance, it consists of being humble and submissive…
I enjoyed today's post. Thank you for having these thoughts.