| Are we born with patience, is it learned over the | | | | that you could have handled it in a better way. If |
| years or both? It has been said that patience is a | | | | you are a parent of a small child or a teenager, |
| virtue. This is very true. We all have times in our | | | | there will definitely be times when your patience |
| life when a situation or a person will try our | | | | seems to run out. Sometimes you can think back |
| patience. | | | | to when you were their age, how did you act? |
| When you are driving and someone cuts you off. | | | | This may get you to think twice before you lose |
| Do you spout off obscenities, holler at them or | | | | your temper. Remember that teenagers can |
| speed up to cut them off? When we do this does | | | | sometimes be right too. |
| it really make us feel better? How many times | | | | It could be that you have been waiting a very |
| have you accidentally cut some one else off | | | | long time for something special, or you have an |
| because you weren't paying attention? Do you like | | | | ongoing situation in your family or at your place of |
| when someone does the rage thing with you? | | | | work and you feel you have waited long enough |
| When someone snaps at you, or yells at you, | | | | and your patience is running low. Instead of |
| how does that make you feel? Do you yell or | | | | getting angry or depressed about it, think it |
| snap back? Try using tact or humor in the | | | | through. I know for myself I ask God to please |
| situation. It really works. Then talk to yourself and | | | | give me more patience in certain situations and it |
| go over it in your head. You will most likely find | | | | is amazing the peace that I feel. |