Our Dear Lord's Humility

"See, O man, what God has become for you.  Take to heart the lesson of this great humility, though the Teacher of it is still without speech.  Once, in paradise, you were so eloquent that you gave a name to every living being; but your Creator, because of you, lay speechless, and did not call even his mother by her name.  You, finding yourself in a boundless estate of fruitful groves, destroyed yourself by having no regard for obedience; He, obedient, came as a mortal man to a poor, tiny lodging that by dying He might seek the return of him who had died.  You, though you were only man, wished to be God; and you were lost.  He, though He was God, wished to be man, that He might find what had been lost.  Human pride pressed you down so that divine humility alone could lift you up."  ~St. Augustine, Sermons for Christmas, #6

O Divine Child of Bethlehem,

may I always keep learning from You

the lesson of Your great humility

and Your even great love.

Amen.