This Could Take A Few Minutes

Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.Ecclesiastes 7:9

When you are trying to reboot or set up a computer or call a business you may get a message something like "This could take a few minutes" and immediately especially if you don't have an hour to spare you may start to fret. Why is it humans don’t like to wait?

I learned patience in the Army. I had to. A required discipline for all service members for sure. That does not mean though that I have patience still today. How do you do in this category of waiting and not coming unglued in the meantime?

To be patient sometimes requires many many testing periods. Practice makes perfect right? So you can practice sitting in rush hour traffic in a major city. Waiting after your flight is cancelled. Learning to be still in a slow very long check out line. Being still at a doctors office until your appointment time. Patience, kindness, understanding and love kind of all go together.  How about you? Are you ready to be tested again?

PRAYER:I like to say I am patient most the time but I need to develop this discipline better so help me Lord when challenges come my way that require me to wait. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Patience In An Impatient World

Whoever is patient has great understanding but one who is quick tempered displays folly. Proverbs 14:29

What causes you to get impatient? Traffic jams when late to work or an event? Paying for coffee in a place to use internet then you never can connect? When your satellite signal goes out during a great movie you are watching?

Many scenarios can create a slight bit of anxiety when things don’t go as you had hoped. But to pop a cork and fly off the handle does not solve anything. It is best to get yourself prepared ahead of time to get in an attitude that nothing will rattle you. The more you practice this the easier it will become.

Don’t sweat the small stuff and even the  bigger stuff sort of try to go with the flow and remain cool. You never knew who may be watching you and who you can set an example for. Now go chill out.

PRAYER: Lord I sometimes can get myself a little rattled if I allow mundane unimportant things to get to me. Help me Lord to stay cool and take a breath and don’t let me get flustered. In Jesus’ name. Amen.