Luke 16:3 Meaning The Manager Said Within Himself

What shall I do, the anxious voice within cries when a role is stripped away and the self we built upon it begins to crumble. This is the ego in its moment of fear, for it had mistaken a position, a function, a way of being useful, for who it truly is.

I cannot dig, and to beg I am ashamed. Hear the pride and the panic, the mind clutching at an image of itself. When any role falls away, the fear that follows reveals how completely you had drawn your identity from doing rather than from Being. The gift hidden inside that loss is the chance to find the self that no circumstance can take.

Most bad decisions are made from a short list, and the list is what deserves the questioning.

Behaviour gets chosen off a menu, and the menu is written in advance by beliefs about what a man can bear. Two honest options are struck out in one breath, one by a belief about his body and one by a belief about his standing, and once significance is ruled non-negotiable the only options still standing are clever.

Digging costs strength and begging costs face; the second cost is the one running him, because significance is a need of the personality that will spend other people's money to stay intact. What deserves auditing is the pair of lines crossed off before the decision. A man who cannot be seen low has committed himself to schemes in advance, and the schemes cost him the very name that shame was guarding.