Patience is a virtue that’s what they say. I thought I completed the task and dominated the category. Well, I did not, at least not entirely. You see, I have discovered our virtues become learned and accomplished according to our level. Just when I thought I mastered patience I was tested by it frequently. These trails of patience have taught me that a master is great because he or she keeps learning. I mastered patience for that relationship at that time. I mastered patience for that child at that time, with that personality. And so on…

We must understand that life is always moving forward. It is always changing. It was designed that way. Plants start as seeds placed in a nutrient-rich environment called dirt that helps them grow and progress forward into a flower. Infants are born and go through life changes, become adults, grow old, and die.

Everything in this life was created to change and move forward even rocks. But for some reason we expect everything to stay the same. In relationships, we ask our spouses about who they used to be. Not recognizing that we are moving parts and change is inevitable. We don’t think we understand or consider how we change with intangibles like faith, hope, and patience.

There is a different level of patience that I must have with a toddler versus a teenager. If I try to operate with a teenager the same way I would with a toddler, I may be rejected. So I may have mastered patience when I was surviving to live, but now that I am living to survive, the way I approach people, places, and things should be different. I no longer worry about where my next meal is coming from, because during the transition, I learned how to wait for the manifestation knowing it will be there because it happened before.

That means while living I have peace and not stress. That’s what makes it living. BUT!, waiting for it to happen is the problem. When I was used to things being hard, waiting was not an issue because it was expected. Now, that things are flowing in their natural course, waiting is hard and no longer what I expect. So, I have to learn patience on this level because it is a virtue and it’s new.

Thank God for new mercies every morning, I need it!