Blog for March 11, 2024
Patience and Tolerance
Oh boy, it seems we lost an hour today. I know, I know, we’ll get it back in the Fall. I just wish they’d quit screwing with the time and leave it like this! I’ll be ok, we all will. A minor frustration for sure. A few days to get acclimated and we’ll be fine.
A bigger frustration has been the fact that our local women’s group took a vote and we had decided to shut down our zoom meeting because we were getting hacked every week now with some terrible, disgusting stuff and nobody had the passkey code to claim host so that we could boot them out, therefore we shut it down. I hate it when the bad guys win. But did they?
We are in the process of regrouping, and we will be fine. We have each other and we have solutions. One of them is that we are going to start having meetings at a Domestic Violence Center. We will be able to share our message with some really hurting women who may need it the most. All I know is to live in the solution, let go and Let God and all will be well. But changing things all around can be frustrating too, it’s easier said than done, that’s for sure.
Besides the Women’s meeting fiasco, another frustration I’ve had the last week (month) is trying to get a refund on an item I returned to Amazon and a refund from a hotel, a very well known, popular hotel. It took about ten phone calls to the hotel and about fifteen to Amazon and spent hours at time on the phone with them. To no avail. So frustrating. It was great practice for building my tolerance. The hotel has finally made the refund, but at this point, not Amazon.
Last night at the meeting the topic was patience, I didn’t share, but I was thinking of tolerance more than patience. I ask myself, what’s the difference between tolerance and patience? Patience is more about waiting for something, or someone. Tolerance is more about putting up with BS from people, life and crap when you know they are BS’n you or your get bad news. Yet, you don’t really nut up and go off on anyone about it all.
Instead of nutting up, I kept on giving it to God. Giving them companies to God. Giving sponsees to God. Giving my husband, my kids, my health, my life to God. I, in and of my own accord do not have the patience or the tolerance to put up with all the BS life throws at me, but I do have a God that will help me to get past it. It’s kind of like having wonder woman bracelets. Deflecting the BS right back out away from me.
I wish everyday could just be easy peasy, but sometimes, you have to deal with life- on life’s terms. These are not the biggest deals in my life, but it’s been a test of patience and tolerance. All I know is, I do not owe anyone any amends. I have been courteous and nice to everyone I’ve talked to, but at the same time I’ve started expressing my frustration, hoping to get results. Hopefully, this will be resolved soon. I do try to stay tolerant of people, because they have been tolerant with me.
Question of the Week: How’s your patience and tolerance holding up?
