Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation.

Francis of Assisi

Recently, my husband and I were watching an extreme adventure challenge through the internet. There were over sixty teams with four members in each one. They all had to find their way through the jungle, through rivers, through darkness, through freezing rain, through mud and they needed to work together to endure to the finish line. The challenge was grueling. Putting themselves down or putting others down did not allow for effective teamwork. Team members offered constructive criticism when needed and provided compliments and encouragement often. To succeed, the teams had to know their strengths and their weaknesses and adjust their mindset accordingly. When questioned in an interview on how their team was doing, one member commented, “Why be angry? When there is a solution, there is no need for anger or frustration”. What patience! What humility! “What wisdom!”, I thought.

When I feel frustrated with myself or with another ‘team member’, I know where to find the solution. God gives wisdom to endure to the end. The only way to make it through life’s grueling challenges with patience and humility and without anger is to seek the solution through Him in all things.

James 1: 4-5, “But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”