Today we are recording our podcast/journal from our studio at Home 2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The pleasant weather continues and my desire is that I could really be outside on a trek through the North Carolina Mountains… but duty and responsibilities must be my priority. If you would like to know more about Wisdom-Trek or me personally please go to Wisdom-Trek.com/About Wisdom-Trek.
We are continuing to consider what tools or equipment that we need in order to ensure and enjoy our Wisdom-Trek.
On day 2 of our Trek, I challenged you to visualize your life as a wheel or bicycle tire, with love being the hub of that wheel and the remaining tools or attributes making up the spokes stemming from a perfectly round hub. So far we have inserted the spokes of joy and peace. If you have not taken the time to listen to the previous podcast episodes, I would encourage you to do so. During the first two or three weeks of our podcast/journal the nuggets of wisdom, that we consume will build on each other as we lay the foundation of living an abundant life while creating a living legacy.
The remaining spokes in our wheel (or my 2nd analogy the tools in our backpack) are patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. These attributes are referred to in the Bible as the “Fruit of the Spirit” that should be manifested in our lives in the same manner that an apple tree produces apples.
Healthy and abundant fruit is an outward indication of a healthy tree. In the same manner, if we are living a healthy and abundant life, then we should be producing the “Fruit of the Spirit” in our lives.
An interesting aspect of producing a healthy crop of apples, or any other type of fruit, is that it requires that the less healthy branches be pruned from the trees. Doing this allows the healthy ones to utilize the available resources, which enables the tree to thrive and produce larger, more abundant fruit. In the same way, we need to continually prune the less healthy habits or practices in our lives, so that the healthy attributes are stronger and more vibrant. In that way, we can then live life fully and be creating a living legacy each day.
Today we will look at the tool/spoke (attribute) of patience.
As we consider patience today, we must realize that this may be one of the hardest attributes to instill into our lives. We all lack patience in certain areas of life, and if we allow impatience to grow, it will poison all other attributes.
The lack of patience may manifest itself while we are driving, waiting in line at a store, or attempting some task or obligation that is not going as planned. I have certainly been guilty, at times, of being impatient in all these situations and have to continually guard against it.
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