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Not everyone wants to be well. Too often we become invested in our own weakness, our own sickness. It seems we would rather complain than deal with the responsibility of being healed.
The virtue of humility reminds us that the ordinary and the everyday is often where God’s gifts shine most brightly.
Francis strenuously denied the suggestions that he was a saint. He kept hidden the marks of the stigmata. He refused to let people attribute miracles to him.
We see light instead of darkness, and in that light we discover a side of ourselves that we thought we had lost. We look with new eyes on the people around us and see how they, too, are children of God.
True humility is knowing so well who we are in God’s loving sight that nothing anyone says or does can shake us.
Francis discovered the hidden secret to inner peace: Don’t react. It doesn’t make the insults OK.
We have so much in our lives that we feel we need to defend. It can lead us to live in constant fear.
