Give Us This Day Our Daily Dose of Humility

There are different names for the daily dose of humility we all need. Sometimes it’s perspective we should consider. Sometimes it’s thanksgiving, and what a shame we only use that term about once a year! Sometimes it’s judgment. It can be interpretation, a vantage point, a bird’s eye view, conviction, an angle, or perhaps better information. There’s empathy, pity, charity, mercy, understanding, meekness, and nobility. Devotion is a good one.  If we seek to understand the world around us, there are plenty of facts to learn and file away somewhere, and I mean plenty. Real facts increase every day, and these days there are also plenty of facts that just aren’t true, and they like to keep company with the verified facts we have saved.  Sorting one from the other is a full-time occupation. This sorting is a duty we all have. We must consider all the information and decide what we will believe. This is true of what we hear, what we read, and what we collect with our senses.