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Larry Tucker
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Date Posted: 20:22:01 05/16/02 Thu
I'm not much at posting as somehow I got it stuck in my craw that one should be well versed in quoting scripture. Well, let me tell you that no one here would care to wait for this fellow as we'd all die of starvation! Okay, with the foolish comment out of the way I read Mr. Linehan's commentary. Now, I could have misread it, surely, but I am not going to click on the back arrow to read it a third time.
Feeling bad about experiencing sporadic pride? Oh gosh, no, there's nothing wrong with feeling some pride in an accomplishment whether it be raising our family, or raising no family, a home project, a hard day's work, the list is endless. I experience it, probably more often than I realize and I think it can be healthy. Some go overboard I suppose and it transcends into one of these push-push shove-shove type of things such as people with large egos, but that's not me. Anyway, people with large egos are a turnoff, suspicious, and as I like to say, toxic. I could come up with other positives about the healthy sides of pride but I shall spare everyone a laundry list. Just one though, huh?: I never experience pride -nor do I care to- as it relates to material acquisitions. The latter mean very little to me, they do not sustain me. They are but things which could be considered a by-product of spiritual growth of which I have made a conscious decision to pursue. And so it is that my insides feel okay, I like myself, I take credit for having the initiative to think the way I do, and I am real proud of that. That is worth more to me than an 8 digit paycheck.
Larry
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