This might be because I am an only child. I didn't even have cousins nearby until I turned four, and we typically only gathered with them on holidays.
In this increasingly noisy, obnoxious, hedonistic world, I crave the humility, gentleness, and patience espoused in Ephesians 4:1-2.
"I want to be where other people are not," as Anthony Hopkins said in The Remains Of the Day. Not always, of course. Often, though.
"Be still and know . . ." reads Psalm 46:10.
But how can we be still when society is ever louder and more intrusive?
I've found calm in quiet(er) community spaces: churches outside normal services, the cozy alcove on the third floor of my gym, libraries which still encourage inside voices, museums, botanical gardens, and less traveled hiking trails.
Where do you go to retreat and walk in gentleness?
“I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.”
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