I'm all for self-improvement. When someone learns to play the piano, play golf, balance on a beam or balance a checkbook, I'm the first with a standing ovation.

But "spiritual" self-improvement is another matter. Focusing on myself, on my humility, on my faithfulness, seems so … well, so "self-ish."

So I try to go at it from another angle.

I see it like this.

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