What is not unusual for people to get this word? It is so seldom used these days as to be archaic. The usual use is as “there but by God’s grace” (not something I did or deserved, but more or less luck). I could be the condemned and the condemned might be in my shoes, watching. How does this phrase keep us from attributing our great lives to our own awesomeness? Maybe we had a little bit of luck or we weren’t accomplished everything. But we can’t be bad. What happens when a butterfly beat his wings one less time? We’re taught about the hubris of the Pharisee, and we’re making them humble, but this phrase helps use humility and help alleviate the obnoxious

certainty of our own.

What is not unusual for people to get this word? It is so seldom used these days as to be archaic. The usual use is as “there but by God’s grace” (not something I did or deserved, but more or less luck). I could be the condemned and the condemned might be in my shoes, watching. How does this phrase keep us from attributing our great lives to our own awesomeness? Maybe we had a little bit of luck or we weren’t accomplished everything. But we can’t be bad. What happens when a butterfly beat his wings one less time? We’re taught about the hubris of the Pharisee, and we’re making them humble, but this phrase helps use humility and help alleviate the obnoxious

certainty of our own.