To love with mercy and to do justice are choices each of us are confronted with everyday. To serve them without humility would lessen their impact and somehow, they would still be revenge.
Humility is foundational to mercy, justice, peace, and love. Humility is the power of forgiveness and it is the strength of compassion.
When we have received mercy and been forgiven, when a hand of justice is extended to us with compassion, when we know love and thereby enter into peace, humility and thankfulness will fill our souls. And we find we are able to draw from that very same well to offer those blessings to others.
Humility knows we are re-gifting a gift. It is our pleasure to do so. This is how we love our family, our friends, our neighbor, the outcast, and our enemy.
Granted, it's not always easy, but love never fails.
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