Love is Patient

Okay guys. Day one of "WiL 101".

Love. Is. Patient.

My goodness. This should be so easy...but it's not. At all. Here we go again...

Dictionary.com describes patience as "having or showing the capacity of endurance". Rina's brain says that patience is putting up with annoying junk no matter the circumstance.

So now, let's go back to the "WiL" blog. Remember the final answer for who you loved? Think about them doing the most horribly awful thing you can possibly think about to you. Now, do you still love them? I know. In your mind you're saying "yes, of COURSE! I will ALWAYS love them." But, let's be honest here. Most of us would not. Most of us would stay hurt and not forgive them. (I say this from experience...again.)

Patience can also be waiting. Love waits. True love waits. Et cetera. It's extremely hard to wait. Picture...a kid in a candy store who has to wait to pick out anything until his mom comes out of the bathroom. There is a LOT of candy. Like...Twizzlers and Hershey's and Reese's and M&Ms and Starburst and Skittles and Snickers and Peachy-Os...Anyway. His mom comes out of the bathroom and WOOHOO!! He can get candy.

Now...What did we learn from that analogy? No, not that we should carry our own cash. The whole point was that we're a little kid. We're dependent on our parent to have the cash for us. It's the same with love. Trying to get it before God thinks you're ready is never a good idea. He knows what's best. Think of it this way: You have an allergy to nuts. You don't know that. You're just a little kid. If you try and pick out candy that has nuts...your mom will say "no". But if you WAIT for her, she'll protect you from the evil nuts! There are some evil nuts out there, guys...By waiting, we can avoid being hurt by them. Yes. It is hard. (Again, from personal experience. It's way harder than it should be.)

So what did we learn? Love waits. Love deals with annoying people and has a good attitude about it. We'll look more into patience tomorrow!