There are many ways to be humbled.
There’s the humility you feel when you do something ditzy. It’s rather painful. You want to rewind the tape and do it over again.
There’s the humility you feel when you realize your limitations. Also painful, it happens to me in boot camp classes at the gym. Some ab exercises will always be out of my reach.
There’s the humility you feel when you fail at something that matters to you, especially when you were trying your best to succeed.
And then there’s the humility you feel when you witness something truly great, and it inspires you to keep aiming for greatness. It makes you believe greatness is within your grasp. It amazes you to realize that greatness is something that still exists in this world.
That kind of humility is an epiphany.
That is the humility the wise men felt when they met a toddler named Jesus. This humble two-year-old king -- living in a house in Bethlehem rather than a palace in Jerusalem -- had the power to humble them, and they knelt to pay him homage.
These days we call that worship.
It can happen to us in the strangest places.
It happens when we kneel down and let go of our treasure. We realize we have found something even more precious.
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