It is not always easy to resist impatience and boredom. Jesus told a story of ten virgins who took lamps and went to meet the coming bridegroom. Five were foolish and neglected to bring enough oil (Matt. 25:3). When the bridegroom finally came, their lamps were going out. Like them, when we cannot make the bridegroom come soon, we will sit down in self-complaint. Then our lamps go out. We risk missing the fulfillment of our deepest desires. But the impatient desire to bring into being great things, and the dull boredom we feel when things do not happen our way and we lose interest, shows that
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