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Today's readings include the growing understanding that patience is a tool provided by Our Father enabling us to cope with the trials each of us will face, ensuring that our fears and anxieties do not destroy our confidence, and patience knowing that a remedy will soon enter our orbit.
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If you are patient when you suffer for doing what is good, this is a grace before God.
For to this you have been called,
because Christ also suffered for you,
leaving you an example that you should follow in his footsteps.
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Wise sages inform us that when our patience nears exhaustion it is darkest, just before The Dawn with light beckoning us to wait just a little longer for that which Our Father has promised us, will be delivered to us per His timing.
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” ~ Galatians 6:9
I can recall my primary school teacher, Chariton Reynolds speaking plainly that one minute of patience can lead to 10 years of joy. Chariton Reynolds was taken prisoner in Singapore in 1942, worked to exhaustion before being transferred to Japan in the cargo hold of a merchant ship, striking rocks entering her arrival port the ship capsized leading to a heavy loss of POW lives. Chariton Reynolds was a powerful swimmer enabling him to reach dry land, followed by two years more of hard labour at a steel plant. Following his liberation in 1945 Chariton Reynolds informed his Army Intelligence Service investigator that every morning he asked God for another day's worth of patience enabling him to nurse, and restore the health of his fellow prisoners, following completion of his own daily heavy working schedule.
Our Father invites us to become His outreach into the lives of people He introduces to us, to assist them through their life's passage.
“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.
Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”
~ 2 Peter 3:9
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