Performing, preaching, praying
I'm dissatisfied with how I do things. Other people contribute to this dissatisfaction by expecting better things of me. I feel guilty, and thus unworthy to explain to others how they ought to behave or what to believe.
So my own performance is poor, and my preaching is made unconvincing; therefore I only pray.
Still as my late father-in-law often observed "If all these words so vainly spent; to heaven in supplication went; how oft then the cry would be; look what the Lord has done for me".
Oremus.
