A Dash of Salt and a pinch of Humility

Tonight I was doing my job with grace and poise and not to mention much humility. Well okay that is not at all how might night at work went at all. As I was doing my tasks assigned to me I smug with pride. I could only think to myself of how great a job I was doing and the mistakes my co-workers had made in the past. But as the old saying goes the taller you are the harder you fall or is it pride goes before destruction or something to the lines of that. Anyway I was doing my job wiping tables and placing chairs on top of them. (before I started to wipe down the table i had placed a salt and pepper shaker on one of the chairs) I was almost done with my side of the chairs has I smiled with glee that I was doing a far faster and better job than my co-worker, but just as i swung the last chair to place on top of the table I heard a crash. (familiar to the sound of glass breaking, in my case a salt shaker) Immediately the room grew quieter and the table across from me roared with laughter. My co-worker who I was secretly comparing myself to looked at me with a gentle smile and told me it was alright. Humiliation swept over me but also a sense of humility. My bubble of pride was popped and was reminded that I ought not to think of myself more highly than I ought to. (if that makes any sense) It is truly amazing the grace God has on us to be patient with us while teaching us subtle simple lessons of life. Praise be to God!

"For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. "
(Romans 12:3 ESV)