Patience

What is patience?

Is it the ability to sit quietly in a waiting room?

Is it staying calm while at a stop light?

Is it being happy knowing blessings will come?

Maybe, it's all those things...but PATIENCE is more than the absence of impatience.
Patience requires ACTION.

Patience is when you DO the right thing, even when you don't understand how it's going to get you what you want.
Patience is when you KEEP the commandments despite knowing when the blessings will come.
Patience is BEING a good example when it doesn't serve an immediate positive result.
Patience is GIVING to the Lord your pride and the need to control outcomes.

Patience sometimes hurts; like waiting for Christmas morning, or waiting for your loved one to step off the plane. Patience, in fact, usually hurts ie; Pregnancy.

So, why would you expect patience for a new life, a new love to not hurt? It hurts, it aches, at times completely, overwhelmingly consuming.

Just know that it will hurt, there is nothing you can do except endure, because the blessings do and will come. You just have to make sure you STAY STANDING in order to receive them when they arrive.