Patient Impatience (Luke 2:22-40)

Indeed, the patience we evince as followers of Jesus is one that harbors in its very DNA a kind of impatience—a refusal to remain detached in the face of wrong, a holy sense that the world as it is isn’t what God had in mind. Though we can’t set everything right by force of will, we refuse to sit on our hands, grumbling about our impotence.

Because, you see, it’s not just waiting in traffic jams that challenges our capacity for patience. We read the newspaper, listen to the news, and we see peace thwarted and justice delayed—people, after all these years, still looking for a little peaceableness and fairness. Whether because of race or sexual orientation or gender identity, or because of immigration or economic status, or because the education or welfare or Health Care system is stacked against them, there are people sitting in a whole different kind of traffic jam.

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