According to Fr. Richard Rohr, St. Francis fell in love with the "humility" of God, a word, as Rohr says, that most of us would not even think could apply to God.
I'm guessing the humility of God is in God's love of...everything. Because, we learn, God IS love. Being love, God cannot see, feel, taste, touch, hear anything but love. There is no resistance because there is nothing to resist.
Without resistance, there is no ego. Without ego, there is only a humble recognition that all is exactly as it needs to be...without any fixing, meddling, guarding against or pulling for.
Now that is humbling.
I wondered if that isn't also the bar to aim for, the unspoken goal of the Sermon on the Mount, actually. For it is only love, the absence of ego, that would allow us to "turn the other cheek," to "agree with your adversary quickly," to, in fact, "resist not evil."
Love, the absence of ego, is all that is needed to "study war no more." Please and thank you.
Thank you.
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