The Interview.

After a week of contemplating whether or not I should blog about this, and I've decided why not.

Exactly 1 week ago I had an interview that I was nervous as heck to go to. I've had a couple interviews for several jobs for past jobs that were easy peasey lemon squeezy, but this one was legit. I had a phone interview that caught me by surprise one morning right when I woke up, and then an e-mail with things that I should know before the interview. I spent a couple hours looking at their website, memorized the mission statement of the organization, and knew everything that I needed to know for the interview. I woke up spot on time, had all of my documents ready, and everything seemed to be going good... until I hit a bit of traffic, I got there 10 minutes late, and was praying that I would have a lenient interviewer... turns out, she was late too. So as I sat in the office waiting, I went over possible questions: Why do you want this job? What makes you qualified? Tell me about your past experiences., the list goes on and on. After filling out paperwork, the interview process began, and surprisingly, the nervousness melted away.
Question after question, she would ask them, and I would have an answer ready for her. Eye contact, check. sitting straight, check. Confidence, check. It went so smoothly, I nailed each question with ease. Until she got to one question... "What are your weaknesses?" I was stuck. I drew a blank. I stuttered and asked for a second to think... I had placed myself up there, with past experiences, building on my strengths, that no matter what I said it would conflict with something that I had built up as a strength. I didn't know what to say, so I just said that I have a tendency to be shy when I first meet people... yeah. total BS. After that question, I picked it up again and started to nail down each question again. And praise the Lord I got the job.
But despite my overwhelming happiness of getting the job on the spot, that moment stuck with me. Am I so prideful that I cannot even name a weakness of mine?

Good God, please break this prideful heart. Take me to that secret place. Bring me to my knees, and captivate my heart.