humbling
"Humbling. That is the name for this season." Due to a blessed twist of fate I got to visit EMU this past weekend. I can't tell you how many people asked me for an update on my time in DC, my internship, and the Washington Community Scholars Center (my program/house/community for the semester.) And the catch phrase I repeated was that I was being humbled and stretched. Being back in DC for only a few hours after my weekend away, I have already been humbled - knocked down from my pedestal by God or others - in more than one conversation. I was repeating honesty to my inquisitive friends: this is a season of humbling. Humbling comes about when I enter a situation with certain set of assumptions, and then am paying enough attention to the dynamics to watch the assumptions fall apart under my feet. I don't have a history of taking humbling experiences well. I fight, I challenge, I hold to the assumptions with a tight fist and sometimes have a fit that ends wi...