Pride Versus Humility

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 ...