成人快手

Good morning.聽聽 Eight years ago today, the social networking service Twitter was launched.聽 With its 140-character 鈥榯weets鈥�, it鈥檚 become arguably one of the world鈥檚 most influential means of communication.聽 Well, at 139 characters, here鈥檚 a potential tweet for today, although it鈥檚 unlikely to correspond with the Met Office鈥檚 weather forecast:聽

St Swithin鈥檚 Day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain.聽
St Swithin鈥檚 Day, if thou be fair, for forty days 鈥榯will rain nae mair.

Swithin was a bishop, known for his charitable gifts and building of churches, but also for his humility.聽 On July 15th, 971, over a hundred years after he died, the monks at Winchester moved Swithin鈥檚 remains to a magnificent shrine inside the cathedral.聽 Legend has it that a storm broke out and continued for forty days, a sign, some would say, of the saint鈥檚 outrage, because he鈥檇 asked to be buried not in some golden tomb but in the cathedral grounds, where "the sweet rain from heaven might wet his grave" and where passers-by could walk across his lowly resting place.聽聽聽聽聽聽

The Latin origin of the word 鈥渉umble鈥� means literally "on the ground," from humus 鈥� 鈥渆arth鈥�.聽 It鈥檚 a quality we admire, especially in people who鈥檝e got much to boast about, but don鈥檛.聽 In the Christian tradition, humility is a recognition that our greatest calling is to live in submission to God, that all that we have and all that we are is entrusted to us by God, and that however successful we might be, we still fall short of God鈥檚 glory and need his grace.
Lord Jesus, who humbled yourself to become human: teach us the grace of humility.聽 Root out of our hearts all pride, and fashion us after your holy likeness.聽 Amen.