Pride Versus Humility

About this episode

The episode discusses the struggle between pride and humility, referencing a song by Margaret Becker and the biblical context of Lucifer's original sin.

In 1988 Margaret Becker wrote a song titled Pico Boulevard. In it she expressed her failure to find the balance between need and desire, and thus fell right into line, this line: “Let me be somebody someone else wants to be;”lost my joy and humility down on Pico Boulevard. This is a problem most of us have—we fail to find the balance between need and desire. More pointedly, we want to be somebody someone else wants to be! This was not only the gist of the Lucifer’s original sin: Isaiah 14:12-14 How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of ...

Topics covered

• pride
• humility
• balance
• desire
• spirituality
• Christianity

Keywords

• pride
• humility
• Margaret Becker
• Pico Boulevard
• Isaiah 14:12-14
• spiritual struggle
• Christianity

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Pico Boulevard, Isaiah 14:12-14

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