The strength of
gentleness lies in its capacity to open us up, to come face to face, to stop,
to slow down, to look and listen. Gentleness cannot be hurried. In gentleness
we are able to face our fears. Quietly we speak. We recover ourselves. It is
safe to be human again. We find that which we had lost in the violence—our better
selves. Gentleness invites us out of hiding and gives us both the wisdom and
the courage to stop fighting bullets with bullets. Gentleness teaches us to take
our stand not in fits of rage but in hope, praying and believing that day will
follow day. We trust to hope. And hope grows such that we make plans to walk
the way of peace for a lifetime, step by step. Our resolutions become more than
mere momentary reactions. Words emerge—healing and wise words—from a full and present
silence, a silence borne of gentleness that quiets the confusion, chaos, noise
and clamor within. Mark how gently life itself endures, as gentle as breath
itself.
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an invitation
to gentleness
reflections by
troy cady
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*Photo by Georgia
de Lotz via Unsplash. Creative Commons License.
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