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Running out of patience?
“I’ve run out of patience.” Maybe you hear or say that sometimes.
When I’m feeling impatient, I often find it helpful to think of this verse from the Bible: “Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing” (James 1:4). This reorients one’s perspective on patience, elevating it from a finite personal quality that can be used up and run dry to something deeper and more powerful.
Indeed, my study and practice of Christian Science has helped me realize that true patience is not human passivity but an active quality of God. Thus it is infinite like the Divine, ever accessible to be reflected and expressed—in ways that heal.
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