"Keep in mind the main lesson he [Jesus] left us - in three words so that we would never forget it and could repeat it a hundred times a day: Learn of me, he said, that I am gentle and humble of heart. That says it all: to have a heart gentle toward one's neighbor and humble toward God. At every moment give this heart, the very heart of your heart, to our Savior. You will see that as this divine, delicate lover takes his place in your heart, the world with it vanities and superfluities will leave."
As I ponder these words of de Sales I'm reminded of David's words in Psalm 18, "Thy gentleness has made me great."
The world does not value what it needs the most - for it will not take the time to receive what it needs - it is too busy trying to obtain things to mask what it most truly needs.
Perhaps if the world were confronted with gentleness it might be such a shock that it would stop and look and listen...even for a second or two. If not the world, then perhaps one child in the world...maybe even one adult.
Wouldn't that be something to be thankful for? That because of my gentleness, because of your gentleness, because of our gentleness...that one life would come to know the Gentle One?
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