Right Sized

 A truly humble person, when praised for the good she did, said, “You are raising too much wind for this poor dust.”  I like that.  I want to remain quiet dust held together by love, and not be blown about by the need for a kind of praise and recognition that might make me too prideful.  What is too prideful?  I begin to think I am better than others around me.  And I begin to forget that it is not my own self-power that led me to do some good deed.  On my own I mess up.  But with the power of God, as I understand God, I can be quite useful to the world around me.  I can bring joy and not criticism or cynicism.