Patience Requires Something: 2025 Fruit of the Spirit Series

Welcome to summer! This edition focuses on the fourth fruit of the Spirit, patience.

Patience is more than a virtue; it’s a promise.

It’s easy for us to get frustrated, become impatient, irritated, maybe even irrational, brash or rude when under pressure, in need of something or even hungry.

Sometimes it’s overlooked that with patience, it’s not about what you gain, but what you’re able to keep.

REFLECTION: Patience Is An Act of Giving

The key to practicing patience is calmness and care. Patience is an act of giving.

Generationally, patience could also be acutely connected to service or acts of servitude.

In our society people have been conditioned to want things quick, fast and in a hurry. Where we may save in convenience, we pay for it in the process. Saving time by cutting corners of the process doesn’t always yield the lasting results we desired. Only the process can do this.

Patience is birth through the process.

An engineer will say that there’s a process for everything. “Perfect practice produces perfect performance,” a quoted from Lillie’s Foundation Board Member Dr. Raymont Burke.

By skipping the process, we miss out on patience which impacts our ability to care or be empathetic, not easily be offended or misunderstood, ultimately unable to give or receive Love because of a blockage to be able to give.

It’s truly more than a notion to trust the process.

RECALL : Practice Patience

• Embrace moments of calmness.
• Practice healthy ways to process your emotions.
• Forgive in order to give.

RESPONSE: Share your thoughts

Leave a comment to share how this edition of the On the Porch blog has impacted you. Stay tuned for more reflections of this series.