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He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.
Why do we struggle so to get up from our knees? Why do we resist vulnerability and humility so vehemently? What drives us to prove we are not ‘weak’. What are we so afraid of?
Why do we tell ourselves that we can plan it all out so that we’ll never have to face our fears?
That from this high and lofty place we’ve constructed, we can stand up to anything or anyone?
Life has a way of showing us that we are fooling no one but ourselves.
Life has a way of driving us down to our knees.
As counterintuitive as it seems and has hard as we may resist – it is on our knees when we are:
Broken.
Naked.
Vulnerable.
Humble.
Weak in our own eyes.
Facing and embracing the truth about ourselves.
That we are made strong,
that we learn to live, laugh and love
and are able to stand up before anyone or anything.
~ DIANA’S ENORMOUS BOOK OF QUOTES ~
Upon the recent death of our Dad, my brother Michael said, “Dad taught so much and he is still quietly teaching us.”
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