Our patience is being tested, isn't it. Our lives have been upended. Doing the usual like shopping, going out to eat, and gathering at church has been put on hold. How long must we wait until we can visit with our friends, hug our grandchildren and look our brothers and sisters in Christ in the eye and share the peace of the Lord with them?
These times call for patience and the Lutheran Service Book offers a fine prayer for us to pray. It goes like this:
O God, by the patient endurance of Your only begotten Son You beat down the pride of the old enemy. Help us to treasure rightly in our hearts what our Lord has borne for our sakes that, after His example, we may bear with patience those things that are adverse to us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (page 312).
The peace of the Lord be with you today!
