| | Patience is a virtue
I lost my temper today over the smallest matterI organised transport for the bible studies every tuesday.There are about 15 in the group. I need to know who is coming, who need transport and who pick up who from where..I usually send texts out early in the morning and there are always one or two uncorporative ones who do not reply my text early, not reachable by phone, or make last-minute changes that disrupt the whole plan... however, everyone was good and replied on time today.. all was good until 6.10pm when we were to about to meet and set out to Molly'sfirst, one of the driver said they will be late.. next, one of the person to be fetched could not be reachedI got really annoyed as I already told this person to expect my call around that timepartly fumed by the tiredness after a long day of notetaking, I got more and more impatient as I called and called, and all the calls went in voicemail, the car is there waiting,, and we were at least 20 minutes late to the studies..I called Molly to confirm the addressover which I couldn't help but rambled my discontentand I ended with an unintentional blurt of: "Gosh I HATE these people!"I found the house, knocked on the door, and got this personI guess I couldn;t help looking less pleased and I will literally shake this person by the shoulder if any excuse was givenbut this person opened the door with the purest and most innocent smile on the faceand it really pricked my conscienceduring the studies we touched on how undeserving we are of God's mercy and patience I felt so shameful of my behaviour earlierthe word 'hate' should never be in my vocabularyat least not to be used on people, more so on people in God's familyI am sure there were countless time when I drove people up the wallknowingly or unknowinglyon-purpose or can't be helpeddue to the changes/uncertainties in life lately I have become very short-fusedI don't like unknown, I don;t like waiting...strangely such impatience doesn't transfer to things that I need to work on but am procrastinating...sigh...May God help us all
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| | Posted 2/24/2009 4:06 PM - 47 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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