We don’t hate the child who doesn’t have the capacity yet to feed himself.

Why then do we insist on self hatred for our dependence on God?

The child would not think “how weak I am, that I must depend on my parents for food & shelter.”

He is simply thankful.

But how different we are in our deficiency.

“How much I fail; how weak I am!”

If it is followed with “how worthless I am!” or “how I hate myself!” Then it isn’t of God.

It is pride.

I should be better. I know better. I AM better.

God wants to catch us when we fall; to pick us up and fortify us with His Love & Grace.

The Devil wants us to push God’s loving hands away. He wants us to try on our own, because without God we will fail.

It’s humility that will make us say:
“How weak I am, how good is God!”

To have hate for ourselves is pride.
To have love for ourselves is humility.

We do not love ourselves for our own sake, but because we are already loved!

We tell the devil: I am not my sins. If God can forgive me through the Sacraments, you have no right to hold them over me