patience

5/27/09
I have to laugh at the word I was drawn to yesterday, "patience." It was the very last word in my prayer/devotional time from Romans 8:22-25. I laugh because I had to wait all day until the end of the day to write this blog, and by then our internet connection at church was kaput.
What I wanted to say about patience is this. It is not a gritting-our-teeth kind of virtue. It is not idly waiting. As I read this passage, it is full of hope and anticipation. The best metaphor is that is patience is like being in the last stages of waiting for a baby to be born. Something wonderful and good is almost here, and we are "laboring" for it with the rhythms of all creation.

Love,
Pastor Lynn