Welcome to the Daily Still podcast, a place to pause. Here we create space to listen for the

whispers of God. I'm your host, Cindy Helton, and I believe one of the greatest gifts you can

give to yourself is room to be still. So pause and begin to calm the noise around you and

within you. And now let's settle in and begin.

As we begin, take several slow, deep breaths, and settle into these moments of stillness. It's. First Corinthians 134. Love is patient.

Today we consider the question, what patient.

Today we consider the question, what tests my patients?

Take a few moments to thoughtfully consider this question.

Let the things that test your patients bubble to the surface. With self-compassion, name them. The

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The Next, Now, visualize letting them floating away? away. How do you

How does this release make you feel?

How does this release make you feel? The

The St. Francis de Saul said,

Have patience with all things, but first of all, yourself.

As we meditate on a prayer entitled, Patient Trust, I invite you to simply listen and embrace what speaks to your spirit.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.

We should like to skip the intermediate stages.

We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown.

And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages

of instability, and that it may take a very long time and so I think it is with you

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