My older sister who once gave me (10 y/o) a lesson in humility that I'm pretty sure she wouldn't remember, but which I really think shaped me into who I am more than any one instant I can remember in my life. My little sister who is such an inspiring little lady. Mr. Nichols who taught me how to teach. Fr. Harber who taught me the best way I learn. My parents who taught me everything else, but especially that most things, especially ourselves, should be taken with a great deal of humor.
Oh - how could I possibly leave out my friends, who are the next best thing to family? Numerous (sometimes hard) lessons there, but for which I am so grateful!
And of course Christ, His Mother, and the rest of His dead-to-this-earth friends. :)
"We are naturally prouder than peacocks, more groveling than toads, more vile than unclean animals, more envious than serpants, more gluttonous than hogs, more furious than tigers, lazier than tortoises, weaker than reeds, and more capricious than weathercocks." (True Devotion to Mary: St Louis Marie De Montfort pg 49)
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest uponm but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." (Thomas Henry Huxley)
My older sister who once gave me (10 y/o) a lesson in humility that I'm pretty sure she wouldn't remember, but which I really think shaped me into who I am more than any one instant I can remember in my life. My little sister who is such an inspiring little lady. Mr. Nichols who taught me how to teach. Fr. Harber who taught me the best way I learn. My parents who taught me everything else, but especially that most things, especially ourselves, should be taken with a great deal of humor.
ReplyDeleteOh - how could I possibly leave out my friends, who are the next best thing to family? Numerous (sometimes hard) lessons there, but for which I am so grateful!
ReplyDeleteAnd of course Christ, His Mother, and the rest of His dead-to-this-earth friends. :)