Patience

Patience 

• Able to remain calm and not become annoyed when waiting for a long time or when dealing with problems or difficult people.
• Bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint
• Manifesting forbearance under propagation or strain

“ One minute of patience, 10 years of peace.” 

Greek proverb

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect 

before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. 

John Quincy Adams

Patience is the companion of wisdom. 

Augustine

President Dieter F Uchtdorf in April 2010 Conference said: “. . . patience is a purifying process that we finds understanding, depends happiness, focuses attention, and offers hope for peace." and “Patience means to abide in faith, knowing that sometimes it is in waiting rather than in receiving that we grow the most.” and finally “The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.”

I know of nothing that is more difficult than being patient. I am an impatient person and for 76 years the Lord has been trying to teach me patience.

Growth is a slow process – in ourselves and in others. It takes a lifetime to learn some lessons and some lessons I have repeated over and over before they finally began to sink in.

Love cannot make things move quickly. Rewards and punishments have no lasting a fact. Becoming Christlike is the slow task of experience upon experience where we are pushed to our limits. Patience is the quality that gets us through when we finally admit that there is little we have control over. Patience requires faith, hope and charity.

I am finally starting to get it.