Humor can be found in almost every aspect of life. I believe the primary reason for this is because life is full of humans.

Take success, for instance. You would think it would be easy to discuss such a topic; assuming most people to be in agreement on a definition and to be generally in favor of it. But you would be wrong. No two definitions of success are truly the same. Everyone, it seems, has their own concept of what success in their life means. 

The nerve! 

If everyone has their own, varied definition of success, then how does one set about teaching the principles that make it come about? Considering how I make my living, this question is kind of primary. Principles are timeless and true, as in, they always work, right? Yes, and no. True principles are truly true all the time. Truly. But our own skewed perspectives and understandings color the black and white boundaries a bit. We can't be too sure we know exactly correctly the things that we know. And we can't possibly know what we don't know. Additionally, we are always forgetting some of what we know. And the things we DO know, how can we know that what we know is so?

Don't twist your head at me like that. I'm not becoming some kind of freakazoid relativist hoping to get tenure at Harvard or Berkley (I am way too fond of wearing deodorant for that). Quite the contrary. I'm simply stating the obvious: none of us has a lock on truth! And though there IS truth, we can never master it entirely. It seems God reserved that domain exclusively for Himself. He chooses only to reveal what He deems appropriate.

So where does that leave us?

Well, first of all, dependent upon Him. 

Secondly, responsible for doing the best we can with what we DO understand. And mercifully, we are given enough to actually make a success of things from time to time, no matter how you might define it! 

Just don't ever get too cocky. If you do, there will be a few of us prodigious noticers waiting to (oh, how should I say this?) appreciate the free entertainment. How was that one truth revealed to us? Oh yeah, "Pride cometh before the fall." That's a good one.