Do you ever just wake up not having it? Maybe I am feeling this more lately because of my age and gender, but there are just some days when I wake up and can feel that my patience tank is low before my feet even hit the ground. Life is taxing. We have deadlines, responsibilities, children, bills, stressors, and more that all suck the grace right out of us.
This is why we need to be reminded daily of 1 Corinthians 13:4, which states, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.” Choosing patience with our spouse, even when the world is our nemesis, can save us from so many arguments and hurt feelings, and keep us unified.
As soon as impatience takes over our speech and actions, division starts to define our interactions. There is a huge difference between feeling overwhelmed and offering our spouse an exhausted, cold shoulder and us gracefully explaining to our spouse our current emotional state. When we choose to share with grace the…