Filthy Rag Righteousness

Now, about the story in the Companions... it concerned a girl who regarded herself as better than others. Her dress pattern was well within the standards of the church. She would never wear perfume like some other girl. She drove 50 mph instead of 55 and gloried in it. She scorned the other girls at the church for eating junk food. She was reading through the Bible in a year and rejoiced to think that she would soon have read through the Bible twice (and how many people had even read through it once?).
Well, such was I - very much like that. There was probably little of a changed heart behind it all, not much true love for my fellow men. "Though I [lots of things].... and have not charity, I am nothing."

I do wonder how I will analyze my present condition six years from now. Hindsight is often better than foresight.