Patience Essay

In fact, my initial desires are not what are always best for me. The Bible has so much to say about patience, but I find myself struggling to always apply patience. What does Biblical patience look like? The word patience used in Galatians 5:22, is the Greek word, makrothumia, which means “long-suffering or slowness in avenging wrongs.” Patience is even listed in the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). If patience is something that exemplifies qualities of the Spirit, then when we are impatient, we are truly living by the flesh. In fact, Galatians 5:16 tells us not to gratify the desires of the flesh. Biblical patience is forgiving others when they hurt you or being gentle towards other weaknesses and helping them. A practical implication of this may be a school teacher who is frustrated with a student who is having trouble following instructions in class. Initially, the teacher’s fleshly desires would be to blow up at the student. However, Biblical patience would be for the teacher to be slow to anger towards a student, when they least feel like it. I understand that this is easier said than done, but God is capable from changing our sinful reactions to one that honors…

Chastity laid the journal on her lap when she heard the tiny footsteps of her daughter, and then the screen door creak open. Patience was carrying her doll Sue by the arm, her light golden brown hair slightly ruffled from where she had slept on it. Wide eyed and grinning, she quickly ran over to the small table, and then dropped to her knees in front of the jar. “Mommy watch the roly-roly baby buggies?” asked Patience, as she brushed a few strands of hair from her face. “Yes, sweetie, I did,”…

RDG099 Pro. Mitchell Lucy Bergin 11/1/2015 Patience||| ||| Patience is necessary for success. It is said that “all good things come to those who wait” If we wish to achieve anything of significance, we cannot expect to achieve it overnight. Patience teaches us to value the effort and not just the success. It is a mistake to think that happiness can only be attained through certain achievements. Patience takes time to learn if you aren’t born with it. You have to be able to trust and wait.…

field of nursing, there will be several different challenges and obstacles ISTJs will have to go through. Some of these challenges include staying calm and patient, no matter how rigorous the situation may be. They will have to face these challenges by staying grounded, and always making reasonable decisions for themselves or others as they go into nursing. One challenge ISTJ has to overcome in order to be successful in nursing is patience. Having patience in the nursing field is very important…

Throughout the first 7 weeks of the internship, I have discovered many different strengths. These include punctuality, willing and eagerness to learn, creativeness, initiative, and patience. Showing up for the internship not only on-time but early has allowed more preparation time for the treatment session that is to be completed during that day. With this extra preparation time, the day and sessions have been running smoother. Creativeness was a strength during the first 7 weeks of the…

Abstaining from sound has become a vilified commodity. When a word is not spoken and the body does not show emotion, the general public finds the time to subconsciously create a sort of awkward-ness. Silence is constantly mistaken for this second cousin of insecurity. It is built to establish constant connection with inner peace in order to ensure patience as the first option in opposing situations. As snow falls at 1 a.m. in December, the beautiful sound is a personification of pure confidence.…

primary care physician but also a hand full of specialists and they feel they still have not received an accurate diagnosis. It’s easy for docs to roll their eyes at this kind of patient and assume they are doing their very best to be difficult and stubborn, but the truth is, without knowing them personally or treating them for a number of years, this is a dangerous assumption. All patients should be handled with the same regard and procedures. If the patient is clearly of sound mind and has…

I plan to do so through actions such as establishing connections and advocating for my patients so that they may always be in an environment where their mental health is promoted along with their physical health. Such can be done using caring behaviors, which are described by Taber’s (as cited in Vance, 2003) as being behaviors such as “attentive listening, comforting, honesty, patience, responsibility, providing information so the patient can make an informed decision, touch, sensitivity,…

Summary of Nursing care of patients with Parkinson 's disease--a rehabilitative view In order to help patients that present with Parkinson’s disease, a better understanding of what the disease can do to the body and mind is highly beneficial. The article written by by M. Coumarassamy and B. Saravanan titled “Nursing care of patients with Parkinson 's disease--a rehabilitative view”, did just such a thing for its reader. This article came from the Nursing Journal of India, Volume 93, Issue 11,…

Stress is defined as “appraised by the person (of a situation) as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering well being, ” (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) and is commonly regarded as something people experience when they attend hospital. Having a high stress level may impact negatively on communication between patient and staff within the hospital, with communication being defined as “The process of passing information and understanding from one person to another" (Theo Haimann SAY WHAT…