Patience, They Aren't Just for Doctors Anymore (Pardon the Pun)

Have you ever considered what part patience might play in the resolution of conflicts in your marriage? How much difference might it make? http://ow.ly/dsleS -FamilyLife Weekend to Remember

The link above will send you to an article written by Dennis Rainey.  The article, entitled The Foundation of a "Oneness Marriage,"  provides readers with "divine blueprints that offer hope, direction, and purpose for marriage."

What affect would being a more patient person have on preventing or decreasing conflict between yourself and your spouse.  How different would the conflicts within our marriages look if we made it our goal to live out the words of James 1:19-20?

¹⁹ My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, ²⁰ because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Wouldn't it be great if we would make a conscious effort to ensure that our desires were exactly the same as those of our Heavenly Father?  In spite of our imperfection, we can still strive to achieve the goal set before us in Phillipians 2:5-7:

⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

⁶ Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; ⁷ rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.