Dear friends,
Happy Mother’s Day! I’m delighted to share my latest essay on gentleness published by Cultivare. It was appropriately paired by Jonathan Bachman’s iconic photograph of Ieshia Evans, a mother and nurse, who defiantly faced riot police with gentleness at a Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 9, 2016.
I hope this meditation encourages you!
Andrew
Gentleness: Pure Power
“The soul is highest, noblest, and worthiest when it is lowest, humblest, and gentlest.”
Julian of Norwich
For just a moment, imagine that you have access to great power. In fact, go all the way and imagine that you enjoy godlike power – the power that created the universe and can outlive death. What might spring out of you and into your relationships and world?
Gentleness is the Apostle Paul’s surprising answer. When the empowering presence of God suffuses our lives, gentleness springs out of us and spreads between us (Galatians 5:23).
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