Humility is the key to counting others better than yourself…

“Humility is so crucial to hearing and knowing people.  And yet, how difficult is it to count others better than ourselves?  Very hard, I think.  I like the way Michelle Cushatt says it …

Tough relationships bring us face-to-face with tough questions:
 When am I supposed to set boundaries to protect my legitimate needs? 
 And when am I supposed to lay down my self-centered expectations meet another’s needs?
 I just finished reading the book Humility by Andrew Murray. It’s not an easy read, but it’s a beautiful one. In many ways, Murray’s words fly in the face of so much of our secular culture right now. For example:
 Andrew Murray says it like this:  ‘Humility is the only soil in which the graces root … The truth is this: Pride may die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.’ … .”