The twelfth step....

The 12th step of humility is that we always manifest humility in our bearing, no less than in our hearts, so that it is evident at the Opus Dei, in the oratory, the monastery or the garden, or on a journey, or in the field, or anywhere else. 

I  invite you to listen closely to Sr. Joan.

To be truly humble is to simply measure ourselves without exaggeration. Humility is the ability to know ourselves as God knows us and to know that it is the little we are that is precisely our claim on God.

Humility is, then, the formation of our relationship with God, our connectedness to others, our acceptance of others, our way of using the goods of the Earth, and is our way of walking through the world, without arrogance, without domination, without scorn, without put-downs, without distain, without self-centeredness. The more we know ourselves, the gentler we will be with others.

God knows us for who we are. If we accept this, and if we accept that God is within us, we will grow closer to him every day.

We must not lose sight of this simple idea that we are indeed one with Him.  Resting in his arms, we will grow. Times will be hard and times will be joyful, but He is ever present. 

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.