Thanks be to God for His patience in teaching me patience, for I really needed to apply it many times since I learned that lesson to save myself from a lot of stress and grief from my own hand. Not only that, but I am also now seeing that my patience saves other people from experiencing stress. If I keep emailing and calling people asking them when they are going to do what I want them to do (repair a fence, start and complete a remodel project, give me a pain injection in my back), I am adding stress to their lives. In all these cases I know from experience that these are trustworthy people of goodwill who are trying to help me as soon as they can, while attending to other people whose needs are no less important than mine. God has helped me see the bigger picture here and is including me in the web of blessing He is working out in the lives of all involved.
