Being humiliated is not the same as having humility.
We have all suffered humiliation. Perhaps a spouse ridiculed us in public or a parent's disorderly conduct shamed us in front of our friends. Perhaps a boss criticized us in front of co-workers.
However, we could have refused to let our egos be injured. Had we then the tools we have now, we could have felt compassion for the perpetrator. No healthy person heaps injury of any kind on another struggling soul. The program taught us this.
We have learned about true humility. To be humble is to surrender, to give up trying to change people or circumstances, to give up trying to force our will upon others. Humility is being quiet, being at rest, and being confident that God is present in every situation. Humility is being at peace, always.
No one can humiliate me today unless I accept that condition.
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
I often was humiliated by my behavior as a drunk, but never humbled. It was only when I surrendered my will did I discover what humility was and that is never humiliating.
I never suffered more humiliation than I did by my own hand.
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ---William James
