Success vs. Joy
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I'm but an Instrument in God's Game
The 18th century Austrian musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart once said that he felt as if God was playing an instrument through him.
That is exactly what humility means. Every legendary success believes that he is just another human serving the purpose of a higher being.
When I look back, there have been millions of circumstances and situations that arranged themselves in an intricate pattern that allowed me to be what I am.
The African American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. had carefully prepared the text of a very important speech he was supposed to deliver. When he spoke, however, what he said was not what he had prepared earlier with such diligence. His extempore speech moved millions. His words, he said later, had come straight from God.