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Fervent desire for growth in grace

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Announcements › Forums › Love — February 2nd, 2020 › Fervent desire for growth in grace

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  • January 31, 2020 at 7:19 am #10094
    JoanneF
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    “…Fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.” (S&H 4:3)
    I noticed this morning that “patience” is mentioned 5 times in this lesson on Love, so I looked it up in Webster’s 1828 dictionary.
    “Patience: The suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation or other evil, with a calm unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness. A calm temper which bears evils without murmuring or discontent (“bleeding sweet” because one knows evil is unreal). The act or quality of waiting long for justice or expected good without discontent. Perseverance; constancy in labor or exertion. The quality of bearing offenses and injuries without anger or revenge.”

    This definition gave me a better understanding of the growth in grace that I need in order to express more love.

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