Gentle-hearted, not easily provoked, slow to anger, ready to forgive.
Being meek, as defined in Judeo-Christian scripture, differs from its common understanding outside of its biblical interpretation. Its understanding in scripture is connected with one of the qualities of being the sons and daughters of God. Its scriptural application from the LORD describes the word as being gentle of heart unto others, submissive unto God, and humble in all of ones ways; an intelligently, aware understanding that is outwardly good and inwardly producing continued peace in the heart and mind. Moses was well-known for being meek. George Washington, though he was a soldier all his life, was meek, as can be directly understood from his writings. Abigail Adams was meek. Frederick Douglass was meek. Abraham Lincoln was meek. George Washington Carver was exceedingly meek. Ronald Reagan was meek.
What is written is said as a placement of a landmark; a position to proclaim within our schools, family homes, and in our communities, that strong minds may compliment gentle hearts in each of us, and that this value be clearly understood in our society. The teaching of it will directly impress upon new generations of Americans an important value to internalize and exude in our life. Being meek; to be gentle unto others, and ‘down to earth’ in our manner is a practice of inner strength; and this alignment quietly proclaims an intelligence of being. It becomes genuine if we adhere to it over the test of time and situation; surely, it is a work to remain meek when others about you may behave out of self-interest, even concertedly attacking one’s priority of value in begin gentle-hearted.
Assuredly, the manner of the world, in practice, is quite the opposite as we move through the 21st century. In our silence, most of us give tacit consent to the slaughter of our children within the womb at the rate of 125,000 every day in the world. In America, there are about 3,000 each day, not including the humanity killed through abortion pills. Only the coldest, fiercest hearts along with the softest minds are capable of such an abomination, of such desolation of our humanity, rendering us as the complete opposite of how we should be:
A soft minded people with fierce hearts, instead of a tough minded people with soft hearts.
Of the spirit found in the defending champions of liberty within America, those mentioned in the above text understood the dire importance of being critical thinkers; clever as serpents, yet harmless as doves. It is this spirit of liberty that if found in the Declaration of Independence. The meek man and woman is not a coward, or lacking confidence, they do not shirk away from being brave when required, but altogether are of a civil mind that says, ‘peace,’ and ‘do no harm.”
The champions of liberty listed above understood that the doctrine of ‘care not’ was/ is a ploy of self-interest that does not put the interest of a family, or a community, much less the people of a whole country, or humanity itself first, but it places its own narrow minded, short-sighted, discontented interest as the priority.
So we have fightings, wars, and political division in America because of the business that requires fierce hearts and soft minds directly in war-like cultural opposition to the America that strives to be of a critical thinking mind, and meek heart. Martin Luther King emphasized this in his writings in the 20th century, and would have taken on, and completely decimated the abortionistic doctrine that co-opted the women’s rights movement and human rights movements that he was at the forefront of. He was taken out! They needed to take him out. His non-violent approach was stronger than the entire military arsenal of the United States of America because his critical thinking/ gentle heart approach was ultimately accepted in the hearts and minds of the American people.
May our parents, schools, academic institutions, and representatives in government, not simply train and care for us to be critical thinkers, and leave off the second part of the equation of supporting the societal gift of inculcating a gentle hearted people. May it be that true peace and solemn respect abound; that America may know what is the breadth, and width, and length of peace that is the offspring of a strong minded, meek people, wherein no more of our children are expunged from the womb, but cared and protected to also be as those defending champions of liberty.
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