Fourth Fruit of the Spirit: Meekness

Make me Resemble you, Jesus! - St. Therese of Lisieux

The fourth Fruit of the Spirit is Meekness (kindness). Meekness is freedom from the energy of hostility, hatred, or outbursts of anger. Anger is necessary for human health and growth. but it needs to be transmuted into a growing capacity to persevere in the pursuit of the difficult good, especially the immense goods of the spiritual journey and of the imitation of Christ. the growth of meekness opens us to the continual awareness of God's presence and the acceptance of everyone with their limitations. One does not approve of the harmful things that others may do, but one accepts them as they are and is ready to help whenever possible-- but without trying to change them. One is even content with one's inability to change oneself as one would like while continuing to do what one can to improve, relying more and more upon God and less and less on one's own efforts.

Matthew 5:1-2
His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them, saying:...Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.