A subject of many artistic outlets

In researching patience today, I learned there are many artistic talents devoted to this word. Guns and Roses have a song titled “Patience” as does a British boy band called Take That. George Michael titled his 2004 album Patience as did the Rhine’s in 1992 and Peter Hammill in 1983. There is an opera Bunthorne’s Bride written on patience and one of the main characters name is Patience and another one written by Jason Shermon in 1998. In J. Shermon’s play  the focus is that life’s outcomes are not controllable whether or not events are connected. The key is happiness with self and the outcomes will not matter. The 2006 Broadway musical Dream Girls make use of  the song “Patience” written by H. Krieger and W. Reale. I even learned that the game of Solitaire is also called patience. And last many poems have been written about patience. Almost all of these artistic explanations of  patience focus on love and as one google definition stated: it’s endurance under difficult circumstances.

2 Peter 1: 3-11

Christian life in outline

 ³ By his divine power the Lord has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of the one who called us by his own honor and glory. ⁴ Through his honor and glory he has given us his precious and wonderful promises, that you may share the divine nature and escape from the world’s immorality that sinful craving produces.

 ⁵ This is why you must make every effort to add moral excellence to your faith; and to moral excellence, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, patience; and to patience, godliness; ⁷ and to godliness, affection for others; and to affection for others, love. ⁸ If all these are yours and they are growing in you, they’ll keep you from becoming inactive and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ Whoever lacks these things is shortsighted and blind, forgetting that they were cleansed from their past sins. (I don’t know about you but I want these to be active and fruitful; I don’t want to be shortsighted and blind about where I came from.)

 ¹⁰ Therefore, brothers and sisters, be eager to confirm your call and election. Do this and you will never ever be lost. ¹¹ For in this way you will receive a rich welcome into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

I want to learn to be tolerant when I am facing delay. I don’t want to act on my annoyance in a negative way when I am facing a setback. I continue to pray for help in learning patience. I think that is why I am painting today. I’m even painting the trim without taping it off so that I intentionally have to go slow so that I do not get the white trim paint on my red walls. Look out patience…here I come.