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The taste of humility

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This is another page from my ninth book called "Dear God". I was inspired to write this book after writing "I am voting for God" on my blog. It continues in that format. Short letters (or prayers) to God. It gives me an opportunity to write more and write to God at different moments in my life.
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Dear God,

It is 111am. I am reading back some of what I wrote before in previous chapters. I glanced at the top of my screen and the time was 119am and the battery percentage was 23%. Back to reading. I decided to choose the 23rd word on the 19th page and I got far. To me the word far is very close to the word fear. Far could stand for fear and respect. I prefer respect over fear or rather the type of fear that translates to respect. I respect Your power. I respect Your guidance. I respect Your rules. God I have the most amount of respect for You. I am humbled by Your greatness. I should write about humility.

It is funny that I am now writing about humility because I thought about it yesterday and I was going to make a note about it, got distracted and could not remember what I wanted to note but now I do. God thank you for leading me back to writing about humility and reminding me to be humble. Just remembered that I have not listened to surah kahf as yet and today is Friday. We come from humble beginnings. Humility will take us far. We are far from perfect but that should not stop us from getting close to God. Pride is the opposite of humility. Humility is far better than pride. Even the word p(rid)e says that we should get rid of pride.

Humility and faith will sustain us. The word faith ends with an h. Faith ends with humility. Humility is the end goal of faith. I want to say that humility is also the beginning of faith. Humility is the foundation of faith. Faith begins with humility but I have the letter f to deal with. The letter f is not far (that word again) from h - fGh in the alphabet. God is in the middle and on one side we have faith and on the other side we have humility. Faith takes us to humility and humility takes us to faith and faith and humility combined takes us to God. God keeps us humble on this journey called life.

Now I ask myself, what does humility taste like? In an attempt to answer that question, I came across this TS Eliot quote that gives us food for thought, "The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless." Wisdom says that a good chef can eat what he cooks. Humility is when we can eat our own words. I found two quotes that give us more food for thought. Winston Churchill said, "I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet." Andy Rooney said, "Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."
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