True Humility

It's still Sunday and I'm still taking a rest from my blogging break ;) And I have a thing about leaving this blog on a positive note. This is an amazing article that was originally in Our Sunday Visitor that touched my heart on many levels by Marcellino D'Ambrosio. Here are my favorite quotes from the article:

Humility does not mean looking down on oneself or thinking ill of oneself. It really means not thinking of oneself very much at all.

The humble are free to forget themselves because they are secure. They accept the fact that, as creatures, they are small, vulnerable, and not ultimately in control. But they know there is a Creator who is great, omnipotent, and totally in control. And they know that they’ve been made in the image and likeness of that Creator. That makes gives them a dignity that they don’t have to earn and can never be taken away. Though they’ve tarnished the divine likeness through sin, they know that the Creator came down from the heights of heaven to become human and fix what they couldn’t fix.

So when they mess up, the humble don’t have to cover up. They just say “please forgive me,” give thanks for God’s mercy, and move on. And when their creaturely limitations cause them to fail, they are not surprised. They realize that they are not God.

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Humility opens the door to the hearts of others and to the heart of God.

Go read the entire article here.

Tomorrow we start school. Please pray for that to go well and for us to experience God's joy in our week. We will pray the same joy for you.


HT Vincenzo at Sancte Pater