the "p" word

pride.

"Let us, at the very commencement of our meditations, admit that there is nothing so natural to man, nothing so insidious and hidden from our sight, nothing so difficult and dangerous, as pride."
~Andrew Murray

of late i've noticed a bit of condescension in my tone, an attitude of superiority, and an air of "sigh. why don't you get it?" usually paired with impatience... caused by short term memory loss.

i forget that different people take different times and different things to catch the vision.
i forget that some things are just new to people even though it might be "old news" to me.
i forget that people do things differently and have different perspectives.
i forget that i once was also inexperienced, and still am in many ways.
i forget that God and others have treated me with grace and patience, and i should treat others with no less.
i forget that i am far, far from perfection.

"He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more. He overlooks then thousands of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it."
~ C.H. Spurgeon