...walk humbly...

So says the prophet Micah. There's nothing like the news of cancer, or the loss of a loved one to bring that home. Being humbled, and walking humbly is not a one time event, and life's events bring me back to that time and again. OK, maybe I'm not as healthy as I thought. Maybe I'm not going to live as long as I thought. Maybe I'm just not that strong. These are all pride points for me, which cancer took and hurled out of the window. One would think that being diagnosed with the C word would help one walk humbly every day. It does not. But what it does do, is it helps to re-focus on what it means to walk humbly. Maybe not what it means, but it shows a glimmer of what it might be like to step through life without massive ego, without expectation, and with a little more perspective of what it might mean to begin to approach the idea of walking humbly, of knowing that I am not God, and that, maybe, perhaps... I can put my life in God's hands.