Vision: Patience

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Patience

This morning we discussed Patience for spiritual time. We pulled every single word from Preach My Gospel. It was exactly what I needed to hear. I highlighted the parts that struck my heart.

Patience is the capacity to endure delay, trouble, opposition, or suffering without becoming angry, frustrated, or anxious. It is the ability to do God's will and accept His timing. When you are patient, you hold up under pressure and are able to face adversity calmly and hopefully. Patience is related to hope and faith-you must wait for the Lord's promised blessings to be fulfilled.

You need patience in your everyday experiences and relationships, especially with your companion. You must be patient with all people, yourself included, as you work to overcome faults and weaknesses.

President Thomas S. Monson stated in "Patience-A heavenly virtue," Ensign, Nov. 1995

"Life is full of difficulties, some minor and others of a more serious nature. There seems to be an unending supply of challenges for one and all. Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required."

God knows me so well. I believe he guided me to read this for spiritual time this morning. Seriously everything in blue rang true for me. Today instead of trying so hard to get this girl out, I'm going to enjoy my day! I'm going to appreciate my life and my good health. I'm going to appreciate my family and their good health. I'm going to be kind and graceful when someone makes a comment about how long this birth is taking. I'm going to appreciate the weather rain or shine. I'm going to embrace in the fact that I'm the closest one to this little girl inside of my womb and I'm the only one that can feel her move so intimately and have both our hearts beat to the same drum. I'm going to ponder of the beauty that my blood flows into hers and we are literally connected. I'm going to ENJOY my day!

These are pictures we took from our hike yesterday to Battle Creek Canyon

1 comment:

heidi said...: what a great outlook and patience lesson. i must be getting worse at patience because every kid i have decides to stay in longer. i'm sorry. its not really that fun, but at least you get to sleep a bit longer and your littles get all of your attention for an extra day. castor oil did work for cruz though :); October 6, 2010 at 10:42 PM

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