I realized the other day after riding my horse, how little patience I have. I get so impatient when my horse does not understand what she is supposed to do or when my sisters bug me about stuff. Going to Swaziland I can not choose the days on which I will be patient or be able to make excuses for my behavior.

   Yet I remember that in 2 Corinthians Paul is given a thorn in his side to show him that he has great weaknesses but through them God is glorified. In a similar way I have so little patience and yet I hope that God's power will be greatly evident in my life while in Swazi.

2 Corinthians 12:9 & 10

  But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.