Mon 15
Intro:
I want to thank my daughter Leah for being the guest host of my blog for the last two weeks. While I was away, my new granddaughter arrived! Being a grandparent is wonderful! With what is going on in our world, now is a good time to talk about how to show love better to each other. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. As we continue this journey, thank you for joining us. Together we can make love a way of life, and positively change our world. One key ingredient to love is patience. We know the scripture from I Corinthians 13, love is patient, love is kind. Here is your encouraging word about patience for today.
This week we will be looking at patience as one of the key characteristics of a loving person. I have heard patience described this way; patience is accepting the imperfections of others. We are not perfect, and neither is anyone else. Probably one of the biggest places we can use more patience is in traffic. Frustration and aggravation happens more in traffic than we can even imagine. Whenever anything stops up the normal flow, drivers get impatient. Patience is accepting imperfections not just in people, but in all of life. Things don’t go perfectly all the time. Situations don’t turn our perfectly. People don’t respond perfectly, or act perfectly in each endeavor. So we get to choose to walk in love and respond patiently, even in the midst of imperfections in life. If we get impatient with inanimate objects, is it any surprise that we are impatient and act unbecomingly toward people? So how do you rate on the patience scale? Let’s say 1 is the worst and 10 is best. It may be hard to admit, but many of us, are at the bottom end of the patience scale. If you are one who consistently gets impatient, don’t be disheartened. Everyone is a work in progress, including you! This might be one of the most challenging characteristics to work on. It may be because we like instant gratification, and being patient takes patience! As we study patience this week, I believe that you are becoming more like our creator, who has been more than patient with us all!