Paitence!!

I gotta be honest, I'm not the most paitent person. Especially if I'm in a hurry and someone, this never seems to fail, is ALWAYS taking their dear sweet time. It's frustrating. I wish we could just stop time... but that's not how God did it.

I remember soo many times where I would do something, like this one time at my grandmas house, I was pretty frezzing cold so I turned the heat up and she yelled at me and said "Don't You EVER do THAT AGAIN!" I'm like "but I was cold..." she said "I don't care, don't you ever touch it." it's extremely irritating. It's hurts too. We are some SELFISH people... pretty heartless too. Way too often we fail to recognize the difference between the person and the performance.

Read this: (Found it on myyearbook.com)

This is a true story which happened in the States. A man came out of his home to admire his new truck. To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint of the truck. The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into pulp as punishment. When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital.

Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy's hands. When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, "Daddy, I'm sorry about your truck." Then he asked, "but when are my fingers going to grow back?" The father went home & committed suicide.

Think about this story the next time someone steps on your feet or u wish to take revenge. Think first before u lose your patience with someone u love. Trucks can be repaired.. Broken bones & hurt feelings often can't. Too often we fail to recognize the difference between the person and the performance. We forget that forgiveness is greater than revenge.

People make mistakes. We are allowed to make mistakes. But the actions we take while in a rage will haunt us forever.
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wow. Alright, so I have a confession that I'm VERY disappointed in myself about, I'm not happy to say it, it was a Sunday night in KC, and I guess my grandma had been pushing my buttons for far too long that I, well, snapped. Not verbally... (take a note: I'm not the physically violent type person so this is a shocker to alot) but ALMOST physically... I was holding my little cousin, Caleb, when she ticked me off... Let's just say my mind wasn't focusing... and well, I ALMOST threw my lil cousin at her, but, Thank God, God stopped me and the thought I had was a reality check... it said "What do you think you're doing?!" So, I sat caleb down and didn't pick him back up... I lost all paitence and totally flipped out... It's not something I'm proud of, I'm thankful that God stopped me though. Oh, and on Monday night, the guilt ATTACKED the heck out of me... I didn't know what to do. I needed to be forgiven.



I hate it when the devil just won't back off and keep it under Jesus' blood.



Exactly. So be PAITENT!!

James 1:19-22
19My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. 21Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. 22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.