Pride goes before a fall?

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
(Proverbs 16:18)

Often quoted as pride goes before a fall.

While I was walking my dog, I was filled with the typical lofty and spiritual thoughts that oftentimes fill my head on such occasions. This time, I was smuggly considering my nice new coat which one can only have gotten by having worked at Winter X Games 9. (See, deeply spiritual!) Anyway, God had gifted the ground with a light layer of sleet last night...

You see where this is going?

On a bank, where I have slipped in the past, once again I found myself on my backside; having a renewed understanding of the chill of wet blue jeans. Also, I had a pleasent thought of grass stains on a new coat.

I laughed as I got up. :-) Praise God that I only suffered some wet and dirty clothes, and an apropriate jolt to my pride (which I have often slipped on in the past).

Let me straighten out about my new coat. It was thanks to God that I had the opportunity to work at X Games, and certainly nothing that I've done made me any more deserving of a new coat.