Gentle spirit

The softest people I’ve ever met have endured the hardest pasts. The lightest energies I’ve encountered once carried the heaviest burdens. Where the world may perceive kindness as gullibility, compassion as naivety, and quietness as foolishness, it won’t be long before the wrong-intending individual learns just how strongly a sweet soul can assert their opinions and boundaries.⁣ ⁣ It is unwise to underestimate a gentle spirit. Displaying warmth when hurt, grace when provoked, and calm when…

The unfading beauty and comforting calm of a gentle spirit

When I gave birth to my son, Andrew, Elizabeth was only 18 months old so when my parents brought her to the hospital to meet her new brother, she thought he was a baby doll. She sat on the hospital bed beside me while I held my sleeping newborn. We told her to “Be gentle!”…

Fruit of the Spirit: GENTLENESS #bible #bibleverse #fruitofthespirit #gentleness #godisgentle #christiangirl

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In this article we will look at what it means and how to develop a gentle and quiet spirit. We will explore 1 Peter 3:3-4 and what it entails. The world is constantly telling us

1 Peter 3:3-4

What it means to have a gentle and quiet spirit as well as what society, the church and God say about having a quiet and gentle spirit. How you can have one.

Cultivate a gentle spirit within, for where the Holy Spirit resides, healing and liberation follow. Ephesians 4:30

What does it mean to have a gentle and quiet spirit? Have you ever read 1 Peter 3:3-4 and wondered what it means? Come explore an interpretation of what it means to have this gentle and quiet spirit that scripture speaks of. #christianwoman #Biblestudy

The softest people I’ve ever met have endured the hardest pasts. The lightest energies I’ve encountered once carried the heaviest burdens. Where the world may perceive kindness as gullibility, compassion as naivety, and quietness as foolishness, it won’t be long before the wrong-intending individual learns just how strongly a sweet soul can assert their opinions and boundaries.⁣ ⁣ It is unwise to underestimate a gentle spirit. Displaying warmth when hurt, grace when provoked, and calm when…

Ephesians4:1-32 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...

Did a little deep dive 👇🏻 . The ESV uses the word 'kindness' here, and the KJV uses the word 'gentleness'. I decided to do a bit of a deep dive to make sure I fully understood what was being conveyed in this verse on the fruit of the spirit! . Using the Blue Letter Bible, I looked up the original Greek for this particular word and discovered it meant: usefulness, moral excellence, kindness, gentleness. . Almost every time this particular Greek word was used in the Bible, it was in…

1 Peter 3:4

"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. R...