but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ;e for when I am weak, then I am strong.
There comes a time in the life of every human person when too much to bear, becomes a cry for help. It is when we have no where to turn, having exhausted our options seeking assistance, that we recognise our total dejected state of hopelessness.
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn.
I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. ~ Bede Griffiths
When we open up to the embrace of humility we enter into a state of eternal commitment to the divine mystery, embracing us with His loving promise that He will shepherd us through the rest of our days. We in our turn are invited to let Him show us how best to navigate the ebbs, and flows of our life's passage until our story's completion.
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company. ~ Pope John XXIII
Good Pope John well understood that power corrupts, sufficiently to degrade those who believe that they are worthy of their elevated status. Giuseppe Angelo Roncalli wisely accepted his status as a servant, of The Servant leading him never to be swayed by any thought that he deserved the titles that were bestowed upon him.
Humility provides us with the awareness that in our nothingness we discover all that Our Father supplies to us, to become His outreach into the lives of those He introduces to us, to serve His plan for our life.
Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. ~ St. John Chrysostom
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