Think of Yourself
“My identity shifted
when I got into recovery.
That’s who I am now,
and it actually gives me greater pleasure
to have that identity
than to be a musician or anything else,
because it keeps me a manageable size.
It gets me in tune.
It gives me a spiritual anchor.”
— Eric Clapton
“Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought,” writes St. Paul in Romans 12:3, “but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.”
[Let’s spend the month of August 2018 looking at some timeless ephemera — how’s that for an oxymoron? — that are too good not to share. Let’s contextualize some, let’s dissect others, and let’s simply enjoy still others. Let’s go — ]
“My identity shifted
when I got into recovery.
That’s who I am now,
and it actually gives me greater pleasure
to have that identity
than to be a musician or anything else,
because it keeps me a manageable size.
It gets me in tune.
It gives me a spiritual anchor.”
— Eric Clapton
