Excerpts from Freedom of Simplicity: "False Modesty"

This section hit home for me because I struggle with this very issue!

"Do you know the wonderful new freedom this simplicity brings?...We have also a curious liberty to speak about ourselves, not excessively but naturally. I say "curious" because most people assume that those who are truly unself-conscious would never talk about themselves. That approach belongs to an earlier period in which, out of false modesty, we try to quell any rise of pride. We are afraid that maybe we have said too much. We slip an example or word about ourselves into the conversation and immediately worry that it was inspired by vanity. We determine that we will never speak of ourselves, neither our accomplishments nor our failures, lest in either case we become the center of attention. At many points this is indeed good counsel, but it is a strained humility and contrary to simplicity. In time, however, we begin to relax, and are enabled to speak of ourselves with the same candor as we do of others."

Then he goes further and gives the example of Paul of how he experienced this great freedom and how he knew what it meant to be free from himself. (II Corinthians 11:1, 24-29; Galatians 1&2)

This book is AWESOME!