ii have a confession-

I have a confession to make. I don`t know how to handle compliments. I know I’m supposed to say “Thank you” whenever someone says something good about me, but I feel like it`s inappropriate. I feel like I should always disagree with the person (I a nice way, of course), deflecting the compliment. Like if thepersonsaid “you look good today,”I`d say, “No, its just because of what I’m wearing.”

I know compliments are not bad, as everyone needs to hear them to have an ego boost now and then. I guess at the back of my mind, I’m afraid that the compliments I get I would go to my head and make me forget why I’m receiving it in the first place: because of Godsgoodness.

Then again, I guess these compliments given by others are also ways of god affirming us of his love. And though its right not to let it go to my head, its also right to acknowledge it.

So the next time I receive a compliment, I will say “Thank you”, keeping in mind that it is one god`s affirmation for me, and the only reason why I got the compliment was because if Him.

---DIDACHE --