The theme for this month's issue of Growing in Grace Magazine is gentleness.  We should all do our best to be gentle for it is pleasing to God.  Being gentle does not mean being weak.  You can be strong and gentle at the same time; in fact, it often takes strength to be gentle.  "Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart...And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient." II Timothy 2:22,24