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    What Does it Mean to be Gentle as a Christian Creative?

    We’re all worried that we’re going to be taken advantage of. Or, that we’re not going to get what’s ours. The reality is: you might not get what’s yours, and it’s very likely you will be taken advantage of at some point in your life. Almost all creatives have experienced this. Gentleness, a fruit of the Spirit, feels like anti-Darwinism. It seems counterintuitive to say that life may be more than survival of the fittest, and that only the strong survive. After all, if we don’t fight for ourselves, who will? Gentleness is very doable with someone who’s gentle in return, but feels impossibly difficult when someone disagrees or conflicts…