Introduction to Patience

Annie, you’ve said your biggest struggle right now is with patience, so I thought I’d do a study of it. And I found some interesting things. The word hardly occurs in the Old Testament. And in the New, it usually means something like perseverance, usually through some kind of tribulation. Makes something like “Oh no, ANOTHER dirty diaper” or even the third straight hour of a screaming healthy baby or here three weeks have gone by and your husband still hasn’t done (whatever) (no specific husbands in mind here. Honest!) seem pretty petty. And yet, going through even these parts of life (which is where we mostly live) patiently is a virtue. So let’s look at it.