Dr. Bob on Humility

Sometimes I am inspired with some good ideas to type about.  So far, since I began my blog June 1st, 2011, I have not had a time like that.  But, I am cognizant that I must write daily, for anyone who might read something and want to come back for more on another day.

Dr. Bob Smith is a co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and I have included something from him.

"On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility.  'Perpetual quietness of heart.  It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised, it is to have a blessed home in myself where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret and be at peace, as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and about is seeming trouble.'"

(from Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers, p.222)