Patience
Patience at home
How short is your fuse? What pushes your buttons when it comes to the girl of your dreams?
How are you at the end of a big day where you needed heaps of patience with others and then come home to the ones you love the most?
Do you drop the level of tolerance and patience towards them, or kick it up a notch? It needs to be the latter. They should get the preferential treatment. They do the hard yards of life with you.
You can do it! Best of all, be consistent – you’ll feel better in the long run. Acting like a pork chop doesn’t do anyone any good. If Margaret’s had a hard and challenging day, she appreciates me coming home with patience.
You can do it!
The times I showed a hothead attitude as a young husband or father didn’t help Margaret or our 3 sons. It just shut them down.
Patience from a young husband and father brings life and sparkle into your family. Patience with each child, letting them move at their own pace, helps the creativity come out. It allows their personality to show through.
Don’t make the ones you love miss out.
This is Men’s stuff not Boy’s stuff. Champions, let’s step up to the plate and make real-deal love happen.
How to become more patient
I was a bit of a hothead as a young bloke. I grew up with a bad temper and wanted my way instantly. I didn’t have a clue about patience.
Thankfully, my dad had his ‘attitude adjuster’ and he gently and tactfully knocked me into reality. Ha ha!
He turned my bad-sport attitude around to help me become a determined young achiever. Dad helped me grow a lot of stickability. He patiently and consistently helped me develop.
Where else can a bloke get a bit of help?
There’s a beauty in the Work Manual that goes like this:
Unless the Big Fella builds the house, You blokes who build the house do it in vain; Unless the Big Fella keeps his eye on the job, The blokes you have looking after it may as well stay in bed asleep. (Psalm 127:1, Watto Version)
The older I become the more convinced I am that we bash ourselves trying to do it in our own strength. We have a choice to get the Top Man to be the project manager all the way.
I did everything in my own strength until my head ached. It took lots of patience for me to learn to trust God.
Let’s look for a moment at the big picture. How do you think we are going as a country? I reckon we’re doing it mighty tough, and we don’t need to.
This is an excerpt from Ian Watson’s Self-Help Book “Champions Learn To Love”.
