What's Crazier?

Excerpt from The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne:

The good-humored teacher and street-corner prophet Peter Maurin, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, put it this way: "If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy."
What's crazy is a matter of perspective. After all, what is crazier: one person owning the same amount of money as the combined economies of twenty-three countries, or suggesting that if we shared, there would be enough for everyone? What is crazier: spending billions of dollars on a defense shield, or suggesting that we share our billions of dollars so we don't need a defense shield? What is crazier: maintainging arms contracts with 154 countries while asking the world to disarm its weapons of mass distruction, or suggesting that we lead the world in disarmament by refusing to deal weapons with over half of the world and by emptying the world's largest stockpile here at home? What's crazy is that the US, less than 6 percent of the world's population, consumes nearly half of the world's resources, and that the average American consumes as much as 520 Ethiopians do, while obesity is declared a "national health crisis." Someday war and poverty will be crazy, and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist. Some of us have just caught a glimpse of the beauty of the promised land, and it is so dazzling that our eyes are forever fixed on it, never to look back at the ways of that old empire again.

In search of humility

I think we all struggle with humility. I think everyone has moments where they get annoyed with someone, and think they are better than them, subconciously. Or we do something, because we want to be recognized, and don't even realize it. It's not easy to be humble, on the contrary I think it might possibly be one of the hardest things to control. That, my friends, is why I decided to write about it, because it's something I struggle with, and I think you struggle with.
Trying to practice humility has been a goal of my for 2007, and, I'll tell you, once I made it a goal, it audimatically became WAY harder than it ever had been. I found myself very conciouse of the fact that I think that girl is INCREDIBLY annoying and I just want her to SHUT UP, but than I'm like
"No no, humble yourself, you can do it, just take a breath and forget about it." well that just makes me think about it more. IT'S SO HARD! So I've been trying to recognize when I'm NOT humble, and I've been doing that, but stopping is hard. I feel like there is a part of me that wants to be humble and the other half just doesn't care, and keeps on thinking the same way. It is really hard for me to deal with this. I find myself praying about it constantly.
I guess those are my thoughts for tonight, I need to get some rest, I'm incredibly tired.
Peace and Love