Maintaining my cool today made me very happy. I have been working a lot on my patience these few months and there have been times I've lost it, but I'm happy that I'm improving a lot in that. What has helped me is what I read from the bible of how God wants us to maintain our cool and one of the fruitage of his holy spirit is patience.
Patience should be shown in every aspect of our lives, our day to day attitude should show that we have a lot of patience. There are so many situations that tests our patience, such as:
- Waiting for a long time for something
- When someone is trying to annoy us
- When we are working hard but it seems difficult to achieve the exact thing we want
- And so on...
For me there were situations that tested my patience today, I'll share with you:
Encountering bad words from a girl
I was at the market today and i mistakenly bumped into a girl, I'm sure she didn't see me coming as I aso didn't see her, the fault was from both of us. But I apologized to the girl and also explained it was a mistake! But she suddenly got angry and called me Stupid, and that I can't watch where I'm going, also other bad words.
That was a real test of my patience, I had three things in mind and they were all negative 😂:
- First was to reply her back just the way she was talking to me
- Say bad words to her just as she's saying to me
- Give her a slap she'd shut up lol
But a beautiful advice rang in my mind: " Do to others what you want them to do to you!"
Sometimes we might have a blast, maybe because we're stressed we might say bad things to others and later regret it, so I put myself in the girl's shies, perhaps she's stressed, (although I also thought she didn't have good home training 😂). So I decided to let it go, and walk out on the situation!
I was so proud of myself for doing this, I felt very happy for maintaining my cool!
I imagine what would have happen if I got provoked, I would have created a terrible scene at the market and it will not tell good about me 😬, it might have also led to a fight of which I might be beaten up 😂😨🤕.
So I was happy that God helped me as I've always prayer to have his holy spirit and it's fruitage which includes patience, that made me really happy 😍.
Another situation I also showed patience to day was waiting for a bus to go home, it took very long before a bus could arrive, but it helped thinking about other nice things and singing in my mind, for that it was as if the long wait was short! And when I did get a bus it wasn't very comfortable in there, it was very hot, there was no AC in it, but I managed to get to my home, my comfort zone at last hehe.
This was my patience diary 😁, I hope you enjoyed it, It was a beautiful day for me and I'm happy to have shared it.
Thank you for your time. See you next time 🤗
