Love is patient. Patience is the very first description of love. But how many of us still know what patience really is? What is patience amidst an impatient world where everything is promised to be done within a click of a button? We can rarely put up with the word. We don’t know how to wait anymore. We want to have the things we want right here, and right now. Otherwise, we feel frustrated, and we quickly lose our hope as though we could never attain them anymore.
Patience is waiting with hope. Patience is also forgiving one another’s lapses, knowing that we are not perfect either. Patience is being able to persevere from day to day, putting up with the smallest of tasks, not being defeated by little inconveniences.
“Being patient … This does not mean being sad. No, no, it’s another thing! This means bearing, carrying the weight of difficulties, the weight of contradictions, the weight of tribulations on our shoulders…This is a process – allow me this word ‘process’ – a process of Christian maturity, through the path of patience. A process that takes some time, that you cannot undergo from one day to another: it evolves over a lifetime arriving at Christian maturity. It is like a good wine. ” – Pope Francis
Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail. – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, GNT
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