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Learning Patience

Waiting patiently for my turn Getting impatient as I wait It is patience I need to learn Oh, when will a fish take my bait? Waiting patiently for my turn But time is draining my patience Impatience makes my anger burn Anger unleashed pricks my conscience Waiting patiently for my turn 'My child, why are you impatient?' 'Forgive me, Lord. Please help me learn To love like You by being patient'

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Ovidiu Bocsa

Date: 8/12/2017 6:35:00 AM

Other wonderful poem reminding me the saying; Lord, please give me patience, but give it to me NOW! Like grass, people grow up spiritually at their own time, no need to pull and ask: grow now. Except poetry whose wonder is that it may suddenly come in all its splendour like Worte wie blumen, like love at first sight.

Joanne Liaw
Date: 8/12/2017 6:50:00 AM

Yes, our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us patience through challenges, difficulties and withheld desires. Patience is part of the Fruit of the Spirit.