Replacing Offense with Meekness
It’s our last week looking at how our anxiety in pregnancy and motherhood after loss and infertility can impact our relationships. And I’ll be honest, despite talking about some pretty vulnerable things over the last month, this is the topic I’m looking forward to the least. Just the sight of that word “meekness” in the title of this piece makes me recoil. How about you? Here’s the thing I’ve been thinking about as I’ve prepped and studied for this piece: our society, our culture, is incredibly repelled by meekness. We are bombarded with messages in books, TV shows, movies, and social media posts about how we need to be strong, need to be assertive, need to stand up for ourselves and our beliefs. And you can’t do this by being meek. Now, I absolutely believe there is a time and place for being strong, assertive, and standing up for ourselves and our beliefs. And I believe that Scripture supports this one hundred percent. But there is also a time and place ...