Humility is what enables us to say ‘yes’ to the local life we’ve been given, to the struggles and invitations right in front of us as ordinary or crazy as they may seem. When humility blossoms, we no longer want another life, we become at home with ourselves.

Before we get to a story about the world changing, we’re given stories about overlooked people who are invited into moments of frightening vulnerability and change.

Perhaps learning to welcome and allow the way I’m being shaped would be an act of faith carrying me into a future where, like the seed, I eventually grow and blossom into something completely beyond my imagination, something more like Jesus than I’m prepared to envision for myself.