...Patience...

Patience is in the list of fruit of the Spirit.  I've been told that the fruit of the Spirit are not necessarily separable and in the current situation where I am lacking patience, I have to say that I agree.  I'm not experiencing any of the fruit in the situation.  I don't love where I am; I don't have joy about the situation; I am not at peace; obviously, I'm not patient; I'm not handling people in the situation with kindness, just frustration; I'm not finding the goodness in the situation either, so that doesn't cause me to act in goodness; I guess I would say I am being somewhat faithful, but even that is a stretch since I am tired of trying to figure out what God is really up to; gentleness is not something I can say I am exuding, as you can tell from my writing this week; and self-control seems to be elusive.  So now what? Well thankfully this is the Fruit of the SPIRIT, so now that I have realized I'm not producing fruit in this situation I will begin praying for an overtaking of my spirit by the Holy Spirit.  In other words, I need to get a little God on me about this and see what happens.