Last week I encouraged you to sit on 1 Corinthians 13 & really soak in what it means to love. I am pretty sure on a daily basis I say to myself, "Love is patient."
Relationship Ramblings isn't just about the relationship you have with your spouse or significant other, but in regards to anyone you have a relationship with. I have to remind myself that love is patient a lot with my sweet baby girl. Sometimes when it's 2am and she's crying I need to be reminded that love is patient especially when she's still wide awake at 3am & I'm exhausted.
According to dictionary.com, patient is bearing provocation, annoyance, misfortune, delay, hardship, pain, etc., with fortitude and calm and without complain, anger, or the like.
Love is patient. Love is kind.
My sister is a patient person, I am not. It does not come naturally for me to be patient. I am always in a hurry and always want things done...5 minutes ago. I have a hard time sitting through a story that doesn't seem to come to an end. I don't like this to take me a long time to do. Life doesn't operate this way so my patience is often tested.
My husband operates at a much different pace than myself. Nothing is wrong with that. I'm early everywhere I go and he's on time or late (well early now that I'm involved). Sometimes I don't have the patience for him. And what the big deal is I am not sure. Does it really matter that he took an extra 30 seconds to get to the car? Not really. Does it matter that he can't buckle Emily in her carseat as fast as me? Or what about make her bottle when she's screaming? I have a tendency to want to overreact, to respond with complaint, anger or the like.
The response...love is kind.
Is your response to things that make you impatient kindness? Or is it complaint, anger or the like. Patience is responding in a kind manner. What does it even mean to be kind?
Words that come to mind when I think of someone who is kind are:
compassion, love, nice, sweet, friendly, helpful, considerate, gracious, tender.
Are you these things?
Love is patient. Love is kind.
I need to work on these things. I need to learn to be more patient especially when I am inconvenienced as if it's really about me in the first place. I need to be kind in that way I respond to things that make me impatient. I need to be kind in general. I need to show love because love is these things. God is love & he has made me in his image. I can love as a patient & kind person.
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