Patience

Patience is something I’ll be working on my entire life. I like Dieter Uchtdorf’s perspective. 

“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 become perfect. Indeed, patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.

Patience isn’t merely waiting. 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! …

Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith.”

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 Joe is one of the most patient people I know. He is “bearing hardship with fortitude” and “enduring well.”

This is a fitting post for the last day of 2016. I think 2017 is going to offer many opportunities to learn more about patience.

Summary here; full talk here