Alex Haley, the best selling author of the epic book ROOTS once said, ‘Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.’
I must admit that I personally have an affinity with the humble turtle, or rather the tortoise.
For at times I believe that what takes others five minutes to do, can at times take me anything up to five years to complete. One example being that after dating my wife for over five years, it took my mother saying, ‘Are you ever going to marry that girl’ to spark the thought and finally the corresponding action that led to marriage.
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I dare not blow my own trumpet, for such an act smacks of pride. And pride precedes only one thing, and that is a fall. So in order to stand tall through it all, the cloth of humility should always be our adornment.
We are reminded in the good book to sit at the lower end of the table, and in that way there is only one way forward, and that is up. And that when we eat in the presence of a great man, to eat of his words rather than to eat of his food.
Positioning yourself in life does not necessarily come as you push your way to the front of the line. There is another way to the top, and that is to serve in humility.
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