Patience…

To be patient.

To have patience.

To want more of it.

Except, when you look at the Biblical translation for the word patience, what you find is this definition:

Long suffering.

Makes sense, right?

Patience being nothing more than long suffering; something to endure until the suffering is complete and one is rewarded for enduring it.

You can suffer a little or a lot, but you’re still going to suffer until you get there. To be, to have and to want patience is really an invitation to invite pain with the hope it will be relieved in a big way.

Thus, all of us have patience… just some of us deal with it better than others.