Everyone admires it. Few find it.
Childhood's ears heard humility as simply, "not bragging." Then, ministers imply, "We are nothing."
Adulthood hears tones that staccato less nihilism. They hymn, "You are a child of God & you are not God."
Humility is essential to Peace. It appears each time we forgive, admit, "I was wrong," quiet the compulsion to claim credit (replacing that by celebrating that we are one.) And when we release the suffocating belief that we "own" things or people.
Andrew Murray explained it in a column quoted by Dr. Clay Stauffer:
"Humility is perfect quietness of heart. ...It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to [God] in secret and be at peace as in a deep sea of calmness when all around is trouble."
Humility runs against the grain of western thinking. It requires daily practices to weave it into living love. Thus easing closer to peace.
-Erie Chapman
photoart: "Atlantic Sunrise" - from "Peace Series, by Erie 2016 & 2020
