Day 78 -- Patience is a Virtue

Day 78:

GET BACK ON SCHEDULE DAY!

-Make sure you are caught up through 3 Nephi 8

OR

If you're up-to-date take time to study Helaman 13.

Something to think about: What did Samuel the Lamanite preach to the wicked Nephites before the Savior came? What are modern prophets teaching us as we prepare for Christ's second coming?

I read a talk tonight given by President Uchtdorf on Patience. He says, "The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness."

He also says, "Patience—the ability to put our desires on hold for a time—is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it now. Therefore, the very idea of patience may seem unpleasant and, at times, bitter. Nevertheless, without patience, we cannot please God; we cannot become perfect. Indeed, patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace."

With that in mind, we must know that patience isn't just waiting. There's more to it! "Patience requires actively working toward worthwhile goals and not getting discouraged when results don’t appear instantly or without effort. There is an important concept here: patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can—working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!"

When we are impatient, that is a form of selfishness. "It is a trait of the self-absorbed. It arises from the all-too-prevalent condition called “center of the universe” syndrome, which leads people to believe that the world revolves around them and that all others are just supporting cast in the grand theater of mortality in which only they have the starring role."

Does that sound very Christ-like to you? I don't think so.

Let us all try to be more patient with one another.....and not have short fuses. Let us be more Christ-like :)