"Gentleness Means Bowing the Soul - I also found a lovely word picture that helped me with gentleness. The Old Testament term for gentleness, anah, describes a mature, ripened shock of grain with its head bent low and bowed down. Just think for a moment on the beauty of this word picture. As wheat grows, the young sprouts rise above the rest. Their heads shoot up the highest because no grain has yet formed. It their immaturity, little fruit, if any, has appeared. But, as time passes and maturity sets in, fruit comes forth - so much of it that the burdened stalk bends and its head sinks lower and lower - and the lower the head, the greater the amount of fruit."
taken from A Woman's Walk with God by Elizabeth George
Which one are you? It's easy in ministry to be that tall stalk. May you bend your head and heart!
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