E-BOOKLET - Patiently Waiting and Enduring Through It All

Webster’s New World Dictionary defines the word “patient” as “bearing or enduring pain, trouble, etc. without complaining or losing self-control, calmly tolerating delay, confusion; able to wait calmly for something desired; steady, diligent, persevering.” The Greek meaning according to Strong’s Concordance is to have “a cheerful or hopeful endurance; a constancy or enduring patience; a patient continuance (waiting).” In short, patience may be seen as the ability to cheerfully and hopefully wait and endure—without complaint—whatever befalls us.