Let’s develop a Gentle, Quiet Spirit together.

Falling snow – so quiet, so peaceful.  Beautiful in the moonlight.  It is necessary to stop and listen for what you cannot hear.  Noise is muffled by the snow – and the quiet stillness is quite loud by comparison!

I love the bench in the photo – it reminds me that, even when I do not to make time for God (goodness, it’s COLD out there!) He is always ready.  The bench is empty – but holds the promise of a rendezvous!  If I can only stop and listen to what God has to tell me in the quiet of the snowfall – I will be rich beyond my dreams!

Gentle is a word that is so misused today.  We think of gentle as weak.  No – it is more ‘strength under control.’  Noah Webster, who wrote a dictionary in 1828 – fully convinced that God had assigned him the task – says this of Gentle:

Synonyms:  Gentle, Tame, Mild, Meek. Gentle describes the natural disposition; tame, that which is subdued by training; mild implies a temper which is, by nature, not easily provoked; meek, a spirit which has been schooled to mildness by discipline or suffering. The lamb is gentle; the domestic fowl is tame; John, the Apostle, was mild; Moses was meek.  http://www.1828-dictionary.com/d/search/word,gentle 

Would you not want to be similar to Moses and John?  So close to God!  So USED by God!  What a privilege! 

So, dear Friend, please meet me here now and again.  I hope that we can learn to have a spirit “schooled to mildness.”  As we get to know each other better, I will be sharing the ways in which the Lord is disciplining me through suffering.

And, I’d like to hear your story as well.

In the Love of Christ,

Gini