One day Sandy came running home from the school bus stop and couldn't wait to tell her little sister and mother that it had finally happened—the first grade's mother gerbil had eight tiny babies! (Do you know what a gerbil is?
Sometimes patience is regarded as a passive attitude that makes one doggedly endure affliction or frustration and wait resignedly for relief from some source outside oneself.
As one progresses in the study of Christian Science, it becomes clear to him that man, the image and likeness of God, inherits good, and good alone, from his creator.