For June, the fruit of the spirit I am choosing to work on is gentleness. Gentleness means showing care and respect to others. It means to be kind. It means to be tender with someone.
In my opinion, we have lost the art of being gentle with each other. We are so focused on our rights and opinions and everything that we forget that we are all entitle to our own beliefs and opinions about something even if we deem it wrong. We still have the responsibility to be kind even when we do not agree with someone. I am just as guilty as everyone when it comes to respecting others’ opinions and rights as people to follow their heart and conscious. I aim to work on this.
For me, the first step is to step back and listen to what the person is saying even if they are being violent about it. I am an empath I can feel someone’s pain before they say anything. That usually gets me to put up my defenses. However, while I am putting up my defenses I can listen and be kind while I am listening by listening and not thinking about what my response to them will be. Sometimes a response is not required. I know this will be a huge struggle for me.
In my mind, if I am the woman who values relationships more than anything else then I must include being gentle in my repertoire.
I will have plenty of opportunity to practice gentleness. I will be starting up my Rituximab infusion on June 14th and June 28th and I will be having my third hemoglobin treatment at home too. I will get to practice on my team mates this month.
In what ways do you practice being gentle with others? What opportunities do you have coming up that you get to practice being kind and gentle to someone?
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