“Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.”
Question for Meditation: Take a few moments today to make a “right estimate” of yourself.
Month: April 2017
“We stand in the face of others without having to take up all the space. … There is room, humility knows, for all of us in life.”
Question for Meditation: Who can you make room for today?
“Peace aims at the overcoming of boundaries and at the renewal of the earth through the peace that comes from God. The earth ultimately belongs to the meek, to the peaceful, the Lord tells us. It is meant to become the ‘land of the king of peace.’”
Question for Meditation: What do you think the “land of the king of peace” would look like?
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
Question for Meditation: What can you learn about humility today?
“Diligence leads to cleanliness, cleanliness leads to purity, and purity leads to separateness, and separateness leads to holiness, and holiness leads to humility, and humility leads to dread of sin, and dread of sin leads to piety, and piety leads to the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit leads to the resurrection of the dead, and the resurrection of the dead will come with Elijah the Prophet, may he be remembered for good, Amen.”
Question for Meditation: Where does humility lead you?
“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
Question for Meditation: What can you do for justice today?
“Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.”
Question for Meditation: How do you prepare yourself for life changes?
“Your Mercy is my social status.”
Question for Meditation: How do you mark your status?
“Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Question for Meditation: How does it make you feel to know that God is bigger than you?
“And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.”
Question for Meditation: To what point are you willing to be humbled?
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