patience. not, perhaps, always suffering in silence, or sparing other the knowledge of your trials or emotions, although maybe sometimes, since Christ went as a lamb to the slaughter and opened not His mouth.
maybe. . . not getting mad at God for letting you suffer.
maybe. . . trusting Him enough to know that your trials will be for your good and He is trying to make you fit for heaven.
maybe. . . not trying to snap people out of their suffering, but being willing to be with them in that moment, offering empathy, if possible, or just your presence, if not.
maybe. . . accepting mortality and imperfection, knowing they will not be our final states. keeping the goal of walking with the Savior instead of perfecting ourselves in order to receive his grace.
maybe. . . receiving his grace now.
hope. not, perhaps, always wearing a smile or saying, "it's okay," "i'm okay."
not, perhaps, just passively "hoping" that things will turn out.
maybe. . . trusting that things will turn out, not how you want them to, but how God wants them to, if you can trust his vision of the future.
maybe. . . being willing to suffer now in the hope, or faith, of a better world.
not, perhaps, seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, but taking a peek through God's spectacles and forgetting what exactly you saw, but trusting the memory.
love. being willing to suffer, to lose, to risk everything dear.
being willing to sacrifice.
being willing to be emotionally present and available at all times, especially when it may be inconvenient, or when it may cost you.
favoring relationships over emotional homeostasis.
prizing people over an absence of pain or grief.
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