Acting In Good Spiritual Health

Notice that it doesn’t say “In Good Religious Health.”

“When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and spiritually.”

First things first – “Intelligence is not incompatible with humility, provided I place humility first… To be fashionable and to seem better than I really am is a spiritual illness.”

In my drinking life I could not put these two together. Why? Simply because the concept of humility was totally lost on me. To be humble was not within my understanding. I was either less than, far worse, or far better because, if not, I was worthless. Absolutely convoluted…

“To recognize and to admit my weaknesses is the beginning of good spiritual health.”

Funny, but at this moment as I write those words it comes to me that no one in all those religious instruction classes ever said anything about spiritual health.

“It is a sign of spiritual health to be able to ask God every day to enlighten me, to recognize His will, and to have the strength to execute it.”

Do you recall, provided you had religious training in your childhood, being taught anything like this?

“My spiritual health is excellent when I realize that the better I get, the more I discover how much help I need from others.”

Wow – help from others, what a concept!