Should You Be Long-suffering?

"Long-suffering is our patient endurance of provocation or wrong in hopes of improvement in the situation."

Since we all make mistakes it make sense that we not lash out willie-nillie at real or supposed provocation. Ask yourself two things: 1st - What part of the problem am I?; 2nd - Why did they do that or react the way they did?


One way in which we can learn to be long-suffering is by putting ourselves in others shoes, so to speak.

I love how this is expressed in the book, To Kill a Mockingbird:

"If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it" - Atticus to his daughter, Scout, in To Kill a Mockingbird.