(a 3.5 minute read) What would you do if you believe that there is an injustice happening right in front of your eyes!? You’d want to do something to correct it. Am I correct?? To tell someone about it is ‘Talk’ not Action. To walk away and do nothing is Action indeed, but the kind of Action that supports the injustice. Yes, it is the same as if you are the one doing the injustice. This is not a personal opinion, rather it is an agreed upon stance by all faith groups as well as social standards that are not faith affiliated.

Yet, time and time again you and I turn away from doing something about a tiny injustice and a major injustice alike. You know what I am talking about. It happens day in and day out.

Why do you think this is a prevalent demeanor / behavior / attitude??

Is it weakness, is it a desire to conform, is it dread of the outcome, is it feebleness,
is it fear??

There are a ton more adjectives to describe the lack of involvement or lack of desire to be involved!

Do you agree that none of these reasons or adjectives come from a position of strength?

Every single one of these includes a worry an anxiety a fright of something typically like; “how will this, whatever it is the action you believe you need to take, make me appear to others, like friends family acquaintances colleagues.”

Think of what you’d fill in the blanks of the following statement;

If you are ___________ nothing will touch you,
even if people say bad things about you.

Some may say altruistic or noble, maybe haughty, or how about selfish?
A broad spectrum, agreed?

Some may say “What is the action associated with this sentence as the action will make a difference in how I look at it!            That’s a good perspective, right?

In other words; if the action is something I agree to then it is maybe noble, but if
the action is something I do not agree to, then it is selfish and haughty.

If we ignore the ‘action’ associated with this sentence, would we all agree that for the “nothing will touch you” it has to be a position of STRENGTH?    That position could be to do something GOOD or do something BAD, but either way it is a position of STRENGTH. Hope you agree to that.

Mother Teresa is quoted saying;

If you are HUMBLE nothing will touch you, neither
praise nor disgrace because you know what you are.

“Oh, there is a ‘praise’ in that sentence as well!”               Should that matter?

‘Praise’ makes one fit in and that’s why we focus on it in a sentence as such.

But to do something that ‘DISGRACES’ you, yet do it anyway and according to Mother Teresa, a HUMBLE act at that!! Now that requires STRENGTH.

Think for one second………… why would she include Disgrace in there? Why?

If not to show the position of STRENGTH in your choice to be HUMBLE.

Mother Teresa continues;

If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not
put yourself on a pedestal. It is in being HUMBLE that our love becomes Real, Devoted
and Ardent. HUMILITY is the MOTHER of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience.

HUMILITY comes from STRENGTH and not weakness. HUMILITY makes LOVE REAL!!!

How we long that our LOVE would be REAL………… right?

HUMILITY is not paying attention to other’s opinion in what you do. This almost sounds pompous, doesn’t it!?  🙂  But it ain’t.

My Creator, You want us humble, and You want us strong in order to accomplish what You want us to do. Continue to teach us that these two go hand in hand. Like two peas in a pod. Jesus was the epitome of HUMILITY and we all know that he was as well the epitome of STRENGTH. Why is it difficult for us to associate these together!? Oh humble me oh Lord to continue to learn and to do what You want me to do with others around me without any fear or in trepidation or apprehension of my fellow brothers and sisters around me. Thank you my Lord for Your love and most of all for Your presence. Amen.