Humility

Humility

Humility is to be still

under the weathers of God's will.

It is to have no hurt surprise

when morning's ruddy promise dies,

when wind and drought 

destroy, or sweet 

spring rains apostatize in sleet,

or when the mind and month remark

a superfluity of dark.

It is to have no troubled care

for human weathers anywhere.

And yet it is to take the good

with the warm hands of gratitude.

Humility is to have place

deep in the secret of God's face

where one can know, past all surmise,

that God's great will alone is wise,

where one is loved, where one can trust

a strength not circumscribed by dust.

It is to have a place to hide

when all is hurricane outside.

 by Jessica Powers (aka Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit), Discalced Carmelite sister and member of the Carmel of the Mother of God in Wisconsin.