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God's LOVE

Hi! Today is onlyTuesday but I feel pretty tired, physically and mentally. It seems I am still having a hang-over from a busy weekend. But when I read the lyrics of this song by Billy Joel, I imagine God is singing it to me. I feel like I am enveloped by God's love. Go, try it! Just the Way You Are Billy Joel Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are. Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair You always have my unspoken passion Although I might not seem to care I don't want clever conversation I never want to work that hard I just want someone that I can talk to I want you just the way you are. I need to know that you will always be The same o

PATIENCE

My patience had been tested by the boys. I have to reflect on the virtue of patience today. Patience = The capacity of enduring hardship or inconvenience without complaint: forbearance , long-suffering , resignation , tolerance . FAMOUS QUOTES ON PATIENCE: "Patience is passion tamed." - Lyman Abbott "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." - Joseph Addison "Slow and steady wins the race." - Aesop "Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return." - W. H. Auden "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul." - Francis Bacon "Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self." - Bhagavad Gita "Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as