Prodigal: I can’t wait for Christmas!
Me: Hold on to your britches. You have to be patient like the rest of us.
This is from the book The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis
Endeavour to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort soever they be; for that thyself also hast many failings which must be borne with by others. If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldest, how wilt thou be able to have another in all things to thy liking?
We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We will have others severely corrected, and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeaseth us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others bound down by ordinances, and in no sort do we ourselves endure further restraint.
And thus it appeareth, how seldom we weigh our neighbour in the same balance with ourselves.
John 14:2-3
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
