What's humility?  Though we could look at humility in many ways, I suggest that we look at it as a sense of place.  Humility is knowing who we really are and where we are really going, and understanding--profoundly--the full depth and extent of the realities in which we move.  To be humble is to confront and embrace what is most true about us and our place in the world.  It is agreeing to accept the paradigms and limitations and liabilities that define us and our lives and to purpose to live within these frustratingly fluid yet paradoxically immovable boundaries of our humanness.
      Humility is also to admit that in the big pictures of time, history, and reality, we are really quite small and insignificant.  It is to acknowledge that although we may be grand and marvelous in our time, we are ultimately dust.  We are not permanent, we are not eternal.  In the vast span of the cosmos and the billions of years that comprise it, we are but a tiny, a very tiny speck of plasma and flesh.  While our present moments may seem all that is possible, they will soon fade into a future that will quickly forget we ever existed.
     Yet humility as a sense of place is not simply admitting to our limitations.  Ultimately, it is about acknowledging the reality of beyondness, that above and beyond this reality there is another, another very real and seminal realm of form and understanding which animates all others, a foundational idea that informs all that is:  God.  Humility recognizes that against all else that may challenge it, there is the reality of God.  Humility is admitting that despite whatever science or philosophy may assert or say about reality, an enduring divine presence nonetheless pervades the universe, upholding and guiding it to greater purpose (a sense of purposefulness which we all recognize we have and enjoy).  To be humble is to acknowledge the fact and presence of divine order.
     For this reason, humility recognizes that what we imagine to be truth is not ours to define, that what we believe is real is beyond us to determine, and that what we think we know is but a semblance of what can really be known.  Humility understands that, ultimately, knowledge and truth are determined and shaped by God.