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Fruits of the Spirit
Can we summon gentleness when we’re anxious, angry, agitated, or afraid? Do we have gentleness for people who provoke us? The friend sitting across from me at Panera said, “It feels like you’re getting angry with me.” My gentleness, for a heartbeat, had left the table.
Faith seems like such an unattainable thing sometimes. Go for a ride on the struggle bus with me as we take a deep dive into understanding faith.
Have you always wanted to be a magician? Here is an idea: be generous.
I have a shirt that says, “be kind.” It seems like such a simple thing to do, yet it is not always our go-to behavior when interacting with others.
Impatience is often accompanied by huffs and puffs and creasing of the brows and rubbing of the temples. Impatience produces a physiological response within us that aids in the heightening of our tempers, which can lead to regretful choices in the moment.
We understand peace to be something that can be accomplished within our hearts and within our lives. We understand peace to be a state of being in our minds regardless of the chaos around us.
What is it about the laughter of a child, watching someone receive their degree, or getting lost in a worship song that can bring us such joy?
When we think about love, we often think about the strongest type of love as being between a parent and a child or two people who have said, “I do.” Those are both valid and very real forms of love in our lives, but they are not the love that is spoken about when we refer to love as a fruit of the Spirit.
