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I guess, all of us are no strangers to suffering. Much of our daily life needs some waiting…waiting and waiting involves lots of patience. Patience comes from the word patient which means in latin word  is to suffer. The person who is ill, the person who is bedridden in the hospital is called a patient, a person who suffers. I guess, waiting takes a lot of patience and suffering, whether it is waiting for someone to arrive, for joyful occasion to come or for some problem or illness to end.

One example of patience is the person who is annoyed to one or several person he/she always deal with, always praying for their unpleasant attitude. Another example is the patience of a mother of little children who always pray that she never loses control, always even, calm and cheerful to her kids.

Years back, I have read in a signboard.  “Be Patient, God isn’t finished with me yet.” This is the kind of patience which we must always remember for us to accept easily our family, friends, neighbors and other people exactly who they are and where they are.Accepting their status in life, not abandoning them because God is working in them and not rejecting anyone. The word in the sign board is for all of us also, reminding us to be patient that God isn’t finished with us yet…lots of work to be done. There are times in our lives that praying comes easily, when we feel joy, happiness and comfort, But when problem comes and sorrow arises in our lives, we feel discouraged, faith and hope is fading, questioning and doubting God. This is the time to be still and must always remember that God’s time is not our time. We just pray and wait patiently for His work in them…in us to be done. To God “One day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as a day.”( 2 Pet 3:8).

We know, the parable of the weeds and the grain where the laborers asked his master what to do with the weeds that grows near the crops. But the master answered them not to removed the weeds because it may destroy the crop and just wait until the harvest to separate the weeds.(Matthew 13:24-30). God too is patient in all of us in removing the weeds in our lives. Giving us plenty of times to grow and bear fruit before He remove the weeds. Patience and sufferings is also not a stranger to many bible characters, holy persons and even to Jesus.

I guess, impatient people try to play God. This virtue is foolishness to them, because they want to wait in their own timings and ways.

Patient people learned how to wait for God’s timing of things and to have faith in it. The hunger, the thirst which waits for God to finished His work in us, make us into what He wanted from the beginning..His own Image. When the other virtue is making a slow progress, patience fills in. A person can easily ignore a meal for a starving person, but fasting for 40 days takes a lot of patience. A person can perform a heroic work once but it takes a lot of patience to put your whole life for other people. It easy to forgive once, but it takes patience to forgive again..again and again.

“I waited patiently for the Lord and He heard me.”(psalm 40:1)

Donate your pain and sufferings…

It takes a little patience to read this article, my first time to wrote an article in English… forgive the grammar