On Patience (again)

I was thinking about why I get impatient with my family.  Impatience seems to have selfishness at the root of it.

God is so very slow to get angry with me.  He offers me patience, and yet I begrudgingly offer patience to my family.  

Maybe I'm impatient because I don't fully appreciate His patience with me.  

Perhaps as I marinate in God's patience, His compassion, His mercy, His unfailing love and His faithfulness, I will more readily extend patience to others.  

Thinking on God and all of his goodness could be what needs to be changed in my life.

But you, O Lord,

are a God of compassion and mercy,

slow to get angry

and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.

Psalm 86:14, NLT

Dominique

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