There is a difference between humility and living small. Humble, we acknowledge all we have is by gift and grace of God. Knowing, we put little pride or guard in or admissions and our givings. All is gift. All is grace. The gifts in us are not ours. They are God’s, and knowing, we submit in will to give of them away.
Small, something changes. Gone is the giving. Gone is the openness and admission and knowledge of gift and grace. Small, we hide within ourselves and horde the gifted treasures we are meant to give away.
Humble, we find gifts and grace—both given and received—a seeming infinitude. Small, we find a dearth—spirit severed from their source.
Humility is not a belittling but thinking little (less often) of self. Aware and attuned to a greater more beyond ourselves, we give mind, thought, and attention to this and far less dwelling on ourselves.
Small, we are self-absorbed; and our self is all we see, blind—or indifferent—to the greater more.
Stop living small. We are made for more.