Putting Up with Insults and Scorn
"In the beginning, when St. Francis was still wearing the clothes of a layman, although he had already renounced the world, he went about Assisi for a long time looking wretched and so emaciated by penance that many thought he'd turned simple-minded. They laughed at him as though he were mad, and relatives and strangers alike drove him away with insults and stones and mud. But he was already seasoned with a divine salt and rooted in peace of soul by the Holy Spirit, so he bore patiently all their insults and scorn with a joyful countenance, as if he were deaf and mute." --Little Flowers of St. Francis, Chapter 2
Being able to turn the other cheek is a fruit of the Spirit. We no longer have to "take a stand" for our worth because we know we are worthy in the eyes of God.
"In the beginning, when St. Francis was still wearing the clothes of a layman, although he had already renounced the world, he went about Assisi for a long time looking wretched and so emaciated by penance that many thought he'd turned simple-minded. They laughed at him as though he were mad, and relatives and strangers alike drove him away with insults and stones and mud. But he was already seasoned with a divine salt and rooted in peace of soul by the Holy Spirit, so he bore patiently all their insults and scorn with a joyful countenance, as if he were deaf and mute." --Little Flowers of St. Francis, Chapter 2
Being able to turn the other cheek is a fruit of the Spirit. We no longer have to "take a stand" for our worth because we know we are worthy in the eyes of God.
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