Jack Prelutsky, my favorite author of poetry for children wrote a poem, that includes these words:
I’m the single most wonderful person I know.
I’m witty, I’m charming, I’m smart,
I’m often so brilliant I actually glow …
… I’m uncategorically clever,
there is only one thing that I can’t understand –
why nobody likes me … not ever! (1)
The world has been vexing me lately. From my perspective, no one sees things my way nor do they want to do things my way. I cannot understand why everyone does not understand the brilliance of my logic and reasoning.
Surely, nothing is wrong with me.
God made a suggestion to me the other day … Try submitting to others!
Submit and submission are two words which go against the grain of our human nature.
If you asked me to humble myself and to respect you I would not be so defensive, but please do not ask that I submit to you.
Submission is demeaning and humiliating when it is forced upon us.
Submission is freeing, when we take it up.
I have decided to practice submitting to others. While it is hard, I am finding it to be a blessing. I am finding more peace in trusting God, than in battling others. I know this peace is from God.
Peter wrote: “Clothe yourselves with humility … for God gives grace to the humble.” (1 Peter 5:5)
Submission is humility put into practice!
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(1) The New Kid on the Block: Poems by Jack Prelutsky, Jack Prelutsky, Greenwillow Books, New York, 1984, p. 137.
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