Fame Isn't Humbling
My last few posts have been related to something I preached the morning before the post. This one is only kind of related but if you've been missing watching our services (or, dare I think it, me preaching) you can find yesterday's celebration here. This post is about humility which you may wonder if I know anything about. I hear it a lot in athletes who have recently broken records or who have joined some group of amazing older athletes by doing "x." It seems that one of the rehearsed lines is that such an honor or to be mentioned with such a group of athletes is "humbling." It always sounds a little odd. To be fair, I have no idea what I would say in such setting. I am in no danger of being included in any list of prestigious athletes. I'm not sure what kind of records are kept for preaching but I'm not likely to make those lists either. As I have given it some thought, though, honors and those lists are not humbling. They are the opposi