Patience requires love.

Patience as it is applied between two people is best seen through an acknowledgment that there is a commitment to become more loving. You may find yourselves in great opposition to another, and that is part of being human. Such frustrations are but one of the grounds upon which your soul builds this edifice of love. This is not to suggest that you ignore those disagreements or pretend they don’t exist because they do. What is important is not that they don’t exist but that because of their existence, you are called to find common ground. You are called upon to acknowledge the sacredness of the other, not that person’s behavior, not that person’s words, but their value as a creature of God’s loving presence.