[Philippians 2:2-4 ©]

Be united in your convictions and united in your love, with a common purpose and a common mind. There must be no competition among you, no conceit; but everybody is to be self-effacing. Always consider the other person to be better than yourself, so that nobody thinks of his own interests first but everybody thinks of other people’s interests instead.

What a wonderful world this would be if we could do what Paul tells us to do, what he learned from our Lord Jesus Christ.  Be united in love, have a common purpose, do away with conceit, learn to cooperate instead of compete, consider the other person putting his or her interest first.  I wish I could be as Paul instructs me, but all too often I think of me first, last and always.  I  puff myself up with my own importance, what I fool I am. 

Lord, this day show me the Way.

Remove all self pity and pride-fullness from me,

Let me remember to put others before myself.

Deflate my ego, humble me O'Lord.

Let me see You in all the people 

I meet and see today.

Strengthen and renew me this day.

I pray,

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit!