Monday, December 15, 2014

Patience!

As we celebrate the approach of Christmas by observing Advent, our son-in-law Ben is doing a sermon series on Waiting.  His topic this week was "Waiting with Patience".  He gave an excellent sermon.  Afterwards I remembered an old skit from boy scouts from well over 50 years ago.


A boy scout leads his donkey around the campfire. "Water! Water!" cries the donkey with a raspy voice.
"Patience, jackass, patience" says the man.
The boy scout leads his donkey around the campfire. "Water! Water!" cries the donkey with a raspy voice.
"Patience, jackass, patience" says the man.
And they keep walking in circles around the campfire and repeating this (about 5 times) until someone in the audience yells, "Hey, when are you going to get to the punchline???"
The boy scout yells back, "Patience, jackass, patience!"


Waiting... we are not so good at that, at least I am not.  But, wait we must.  We have no choice.  But the promise is that G^d will give us endurance.  Just read the verse.

L^rd, give us Your Holy Spirit, your endurance.  Let us wait on Thee alone, with eager anticipation but patience, L^rd, patience.

Let us not cause you to say to us, "Patience, jackass, patience!"

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