Pride is the last of the eight thoughts-and Evagrius considered it the most dangerous, because it can only attack once the other seven have already been defeated. It doesn’t need an audience the way vainglory does; it just needs you to believe that whatever you did, you did it yourself. Pride, if left unchecked, doesn’t just cost you your humility-it costs you your grip on reality itself. James gives us the only real answer: submit, resist, draw near, humble yourself. The antidote to a self-made life is a fully surrendered one…see you Sunday!