2.9.20

Pride--Is it looking up or looking down?

 

... Pride.  The great sermon by Ezra Taft Benson, "Beware of Pride" explains that pride is nothing less than enmity.  In the end, pride is enmity towards God.  It manifests itself, though, in so many different forms.  According to President Benson's talk, pride, looked-at only negatively, can be outright cocky--lifted-up in pride because of some achievement that you have accomplished or status you've obtained, an overabundance in confidence in oneself--looking down on others who haven't achieved such a status.  Or, it can be the pride of looking up and thinking that others are most definitely looking down on you or the position you are in.

I hate money.  I am happy to be as poor as we are...

All I know, is that in trying to work-it-out in my mind, my wife is confused over what I think and what I believe, and now, at least for right now, she is a little irritated with me and what I might think.

I hate that...

JPS