“I think the root word is
humus, from the soil.
It's not unrelated to ecology, to [one's] place among things. You don't
exaggerate it; you don't put it down…. You know, Jesus, if people hadn't known
him, you'd think he was a farmer. A farmer is humbled because the farmer obeys
the seasons, puts the seed in the ground and recognizes that things have to
grow and that there's a time for harvest. It's that recognition that things are
going to happen outside of us, that are bigger than us, but we just play a
little part.”—Catholic nun, social activist and Dead Man Walking author
Sister Helen Prejean, quoted in “Soapbox: The Columnists—WSJ. Asks Six
Luminaries To Weigh in on a Single Topic; This Month: Humility,” WSJ. Magazine (the monthly magazine of The Wall
Street Journal), June/July 2021
The image of Sister Helen that accompanies this post
was taken on Sept. 19, 2006 by Don LaVange from Pleasant Grove, UT.
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