Here are the notes for my lesson today:
Continue in Patience
Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
April 2010 Gen. Conference
Patience—the ability to put our desires on hold for a time—is a precious and rare virtue.
Without patience, we cannot please God; we cannot become perfect.
Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.
Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can—working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed.
Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!
Impatience, on the other hand, is a symptom of selfishness. It is a trait of the self-absorbed. It arises from the all-too-prevalent condition called “center of the universe” syndrome, which leads people to believe that the world revolves around them and that all others are just supporting cast in the grand theater of mortality in which only they have the starring role.
I know for sure that the promises of the Lord, if perhaps not always swift, are always certain.-Pres. Uchtdorf
Knowledge and understanding come at the price of patience.
Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit.
Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings. It means reining in anger and holding back the unkind word. It means resisting evil, even when it appears to be making others rich.
Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being “willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father.” Ultimately, patience means being “firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord” every hour of every day, even when it is hard to do so.
Patience is a process of perfection.
Patience means to abide in faith, knowing that sometimes it is in the waiting rather than in the receiving that we grow the most.
*All of the above quotes are excerpts from Pres. Uchtdorf's talk.
Sounds like another excellent lesson, Tam. I think patience is something pretty much everyone can improve upon. I know I am always trying to be more patient. Some things are easy to be patient with (like I will never buy on credit. I will save up and wait to get something) but having patience with people, or in trials, is harder for me. Good lesson. I wish I could have come to your class.
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