Themes:

Listening to your elders.
Faith
Humility
Longsuffering

Longsuffering is a Fruit of the Spirit. What is longsuffering? How is suffering related to a Fruit of the Spirit? The rest of the fruit sounds so appealing - Joy, Love, Gentleness, Peace, Temperance, Meekness, Goodness....

A previous post referenced a quote on suffering that I read on another blog.

The quote caused me to think about suffering, and the role of suffering in the physical and spiritual realms. When defined as a noun, longsuffering means "long and patient endurance of injury, trouble, or provocation." This indicates that in this realm, those of us who chose to nuture the fruit of the spirit can expect to suffer. The Fruit is the ability to patiently endure the suffering.

Patiently endure suffering. Food for thought.