WEDNESDAY, June 12 2 Corinthians 11:21b-33. If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. What are you most proud of about yourself? Your looks? Your career? Your accomplished child? Your personality? Everybody has things they are justifiably proud of, things that they take pleasure in, things that help them identify their worth. Even the apostle Paul, in an inverted way, is bragging. But he is trying to point people beyond a sense of earned accomplishment and pedigree to something more radical: identifying with our weaknesses. Why would anyone do that? I heard some Buddhists years ago speak of “beginner’s mind.” They said that the best way to approach meditation was not to focus on how long or how still you could meditate, but just on the simple action of coming back from distraction to the still point again and again. If you could see yourself as always beginning, and never paid attention to how advanced you were, it would be so much more fruitful. This is wonderful, honest humility. Beginner’s mind can be applied to all of life. So many times pride is an attempt to puff ourselves up larger than we secretly think we are, which makes us anxious. Humility frees us from all that drama. PRAY for the Diocese of Nyahururu (Kenya) Today the Church remembers Enmegahbowh, Priest and Missionary, 1902. Ps 72 * 119:73-96; Deuteronomy 31:30—32:14; Luke 19:11-27
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:15:51 +0000
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