From today's Daily Meditation:
The two
adjectives most applied to God by Franciscan mysticism were goodness
and humility. Hardly any of us would think to call God humble, but
Francis did. He fell in love with the humility of God because if God emptied
himself and hid himself inside the material world as in Jesus, and waits so
patiently for us to grow up, then God is very humble indeed.
Francis fell in
love more with Jesus’ humanity than with his divinity. It was his humanity that
he wanted to draw close to and imitate. Only in a humble state, and among the
humble, could Francis easily and naturally see God. He even loved humble
creatures like worms, and crickets, and little lambs because they more
truthfully revealed the Mystery of Jesus.
-Richard Rohr, From an unpublished talk in Assisi, Italy, May 2012
