Have you ever had someone be impatient with you? I know there are lots of times when I have gotten impatient with one of my kids because it took them to long to do something. Usually it was something that they were just learning to do, and because I like things done snap, snap, I got irritated because they were being a child. Shoes take longer for a 5 year old to tie. Making a bed gets much easier and can be done way faster when you get old enough to reach all the way across it. As parents, we may have been impatient with kids over things that really should have taken longer for a kid to accomplish. I have a good friend who is exceptionally patient with children. She loves to get down on their level and talk to them eye to eye and she always did that with her own children, I’m always amazed at her patience level. She demonstrates to me all of the qualities of a patient person. She doesn’t expect kids to be like a machine that performs, she treats them like people who are progressing who can and do have flaws. I hope we all have someone in your life like her. I also hope you remember that everyone around you is a person and not a machine. In the movies, things can transform from one moment to the next. In real life transformation takes a process. We grow day by day, and patience is produced in us as we walk it out. So how patient are you? I know that you can grow in patience day by day!
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