Looking for the good in others and trying to be patient

Yes, Thursday is Valentine's Day...a day set apart to think about love. When some think about what love means, all the filthy images you see sometimes on television come into view. You know the ones. I always have to turn my head away and mute the sound whenever they come on. I can't understand why anyone would enjoy watching that. It isn't love, it's lust in its ugliest form.

Today is Abraham Lincoln's Birthday. Unfortunately no one celebrates it anymore. It used to be a day off to reflect what he did to free the slaves. Now that day is celebrated in January ironically with Martin Luther King Day. I do have a hard time with this. I know that both men worked hard on behalf of their fellow men and both deserve recognition for their actions. Yet the man that set the stage for what happened over a hundred years later is neglected entirely while the other man who benefited from that set of actions gets venerated to an almost godlike proportion. I don't understand this at all. There are too many people that have done so much for civil rights that it almost seems that their stories are being neglected as well to venerate this one man. I do try to look for the good in others. I don't like to put down anyone, but instead lift them up. I know that I need to be patient with my fellow man.

Love is patient. It looks at the best, not at the worst in a person. It is difficult, especially these days when everything seems to out in the open at its worst possible form to see the best in a person. You really don't know a person until you actually sit down and get to know them. Some are totally impatient, wanting things from you that you're unwilling to give. Others are too much like putty, letting others walk all over them. Still others are just right. They follow the Lord's leading and patiently wait instead of either holding back or pushing forward. This is a lesson I'm learning now...to be patient and wait on the Lord.