As Love Is Our Witness...

As Love is our witness

Worship cannot hide

God of forgiveness

Forgive foolish pride

Forgive the falsehood

We try to disguise

As something pure and good

When it is lies

Forgive the stumble

When face-first, we sprawl

You make us humble

By letting us fall

When we try to impress

Oh Lord, you know

How to remind us

By Whose grace we go

© Janet Martin

 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

Prov.16:18

I will never forget a very humbling fall years ago when I worked at an in-store bakery. 

I had dashed (most likely in unnecessary frenzy)

 to the walk-in freezer (after the time of day when I had hoped to be home)

standing on some hurriedly-piled boxes to reach something on the top shelf

when the stack gave out and I landed heels over head with the door open

and a truck-driver delivering goods happening to pass by just then...

He laughed til he cried then quickly came to my aid

where I was trying to right myself (esp my dress!!!)

He asked my forgiveness while dissolving on the floor in a fit of laughter again, saying 

it was truly one of the 'funniest things' he had ever seen.

I, mortified beyond words returned to the bakery in a much meeker state of mind.