Day 29 Of The Omer Count to Pentecost

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Thursday 5-23-24 5th Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Iyar 14 5784 66th. Spring Day

OMER COUNT - WEEK 5 - Aaron

HOD – HUMILITY With Chesed-Loving Kindness

During the fifth week of counting the Omer, we examine and refine the emotional attribute of Hod or humility.
Humility -- and the resulting yielding -- should not be confused with weakness and lack of self-esteem. Hod or
humility is modesty -- it is acknowledgment saying to God. It is clearly recognizing your qualities and strengths and acknowledging that they are not your own; they were given to you by God for a higher purpose than just satisfying your own needs.

Humility is modesty; it is recognizing how small you are which allows you to realize how large you can become. And that makes humility so formidable.
A full cup cannot be filled. When you filled with yourself and your needs, I and nothing else there is no room for more. When you yourself before something greater than yourself, your capacity to receive increases beyond your previously perceived limits. Humility is the key to transcendence; to reach beyond yourself.

Only true humility gives you the power of total objectivity. Humility is sensitivity; it is healthy shame
out of recognition that you can be better than you are and that you can expect more of yourself. Although
humility is silent it is not a void. It is a dynamic expression of life that includes all seven qualities of love,
discipline, compassion, endurance, humility, bonding and sovereignty.

Day 29 Loving-kindness in Humility
Psalm 126:1-6; Ex. 34:6-7

Examine the love in your humility. Healthy humility is not demoralizing; it brings love and joy not fear.
Humility that lacks love has to be reexamined for its authenticity. Sometimes humility can be confused with low
self-esteem, which would cause it to be unloving. Humility brings love because it gives you the ability to rise
above yourself and love another. Does my humility cause me to be more loving and giving? More expansive?
Or does it inhibit and constrain me?

Exercise for the day: Before praying with humility and acknowledgment of God, give some charity. It will
enhance your prayers.


Love, Walter And Debbie
 
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