Today, we'll hear sermons and read posts about God on a donkey, the path of humility and powerlessness. It's a good word. It's a needed word, especially when our leaders are so intoxicated with power. But absent a deep interiorization of this way of humility and metabolization of our own sufferings, we'll speak truthful words without truth in our inmost being. Absent the cultivation of humility and the abandonment of well-worn strategies of self-protection, we'll live in a kind of nostalgic embrace of an idea and not in its beautiful and painful reality.