The greatest temptation of our time is impatience, in its full, original meaning: refusal to wait, undergo, suffer.” …
~Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Lord God, the greatest temptation of our time this is the greatest sin of my days. This impatience, is it really a refusal to suffer? Then Patience is the converse: the willingness to suffer. Please, do that in me. Don’t I long to know You? I can wait….
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death…
~ Philippians 3:10
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