ONE MONTH TO LIVE - DAY ELEVEN (PATIENCE)

This is fresh off the press!  I am at the library right now sitting with an elderly couple probably in their 80's.  They are looking at some magazine and trying to look up stuff on the internet.  The husband is typing stuff on their laptop while the wife is trying to help spell the name of the persons they are looking for.

The husband keeps on slapping her hand in frustration that she isn't giving the proper spelling.  Whatever the reason may be, I can't believe my eyes!  I felt like telling him to stop.  An overwhelming protective side of me wanted to jump in to help this poor old woman.  I then realized that this is the "way it is" with them and probably how it's always been. 

It's so sad to think that after an entire lifetime of marriage, that these two have grown more in impatience that in love.  The Bible says, "Love is patient, love is kind". 

I'm not one to talk.  I am impulsive and impatient with my own wife and have just been given a snapshot of my future if I continue with my impatient behaviour.  Thank you God for revealing that to me now!  So much to learn!

Oh Lord, help me to love with agape (sacrificial, unconditional) love.  Because only then can I be kind and patient.  Lord help me.