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\u201cNow may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus\u2026\u201d <\/em>Romans 15:5<\/p>\n

Impatience<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Walk His Way Revisited<\/em><\/p>\n

I could feel my skin crawling with impatience. I wanted to tap my foot. To reach out my hand and do it for her. I wanted to roll my eyes at her slowness. I knew the best way, the quickest way, the\u2026right way.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m ashamed to tell you that this impatience was with my aging mother. She surely never did this to me when I was a child, as she trained me to cook, sew, garden, clean house, and iron.<\/p>\n

If you have children, you have experienced this same feeling. We know we should be letting them learn as they go along, but sometimes we\u2019re just in a hurry. Or we feel we\u2019ve shown them how to do a thing so many times before, we just don\u2019t want to do it again.<\/p>\n

I hate that feeling of wasting time. After all, I\u2019ll never get it back! I need to remember that the time I\u2019m so impatiently watching pass me by does not belong only to me. Max Lucado says, \u201cWe share time with others\u2014it\u2019s not just our time.\u201d Time can\u2019t belong to a person. It is given to us all\u2014the exact same 24 hours each day is given to every person alive, all at the same time. We all have \u201cnow.\u201d We may not have tomorrow, but we all have \u201cnow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ten minutes it takes my grandchild to tie his shoes does not belong only to me, and I have no right to be impatient as if the time is only mine. I am sharing those ten minutes with him. My expenditure of the time is to watch, be interested, and encourage. His expenditure of the exact same ten minutes is to struggle, to learn, to succeed. When I\u2019m patient, it\u2019s a win-win. When I\u2019m impatient, we both lose what could have been gain.<\/p>\n

Every moment that passes is not a \u201cwaste\u201d of time, but rather a \u201cuse\u201d of time.<\/p>\n

I need to remind myself how patient our loving Father is with me. How many times has He told me something? How often has He stood by me when I was crabby and impossible to live with? When did He ever turn His back on me as I struggled to learn something? Was He exasperated when I forgot His Word? Did He take over for me when I was slow?<\/p>\n

Thankfully, He does reach out to help me when I\u2019m stuck. But it\u2019s only when I\u2019m truly stuck, because He knows my muscles develop when I exercise them. He stands by, reminding, encouraging, watching\u2014but not doing it for me.<\/p>\n

He shares His time with us, just like that.<\/p>\n

Father, teach me to unselfishly share \u201cmy\u201d time. Those ten minutes have one purpose for me, and another purpose for someone else. Give me patient love. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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