[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1030":3},"OCTOBER 30\r\nLet us run with patience (Heb. 12:1).\r\nTo run with patience is a very difficult thing. Running is apt to\r\nsuggest the absence of patience, the eagerness to reach the goal.  We commonly associate patience with lying down. We think of it as the angel that guards the couch of the invalid. Yet I do not think\r\nthe invalid's patience the hardest to achieve.\r\nThere is a patience which I believe to be harder-the patience that can run. To he down in the time of grief, to be quiet under the\r\nstroke of adverse fortune, implies a great strength; but I know of something that implies a strength greater still: It is the power to\r\nwork under a stroke; to have a great weight at your heart and still to run; to have a deep anguish in your spirit and still perform the   daily task. It is a Christlike thing!\r\nMany of us would nurse our grief without crying if we were allowed to nurse it The hard thing is that most of us are called to\r\nexercise our patience, not in bed, but in the street We are called to bury our sorrows not in lethargic quiescence, but in active\r\nservice-in the exchange, in the workshop, in the hour of social intercourse, in the contribution to another's joy. There is no\r\nburial of sorrow so difficult as that; it is the \"running with\r\n\r\npatience.\"\r\nThis was Thy patience, 0 Son of man! It was at once a waiting and a running-a waiting for the goal, and a doing of the lesser work\r\nmeantime. I see Thee at Cana turning the water into wine lest the\r\nmarriage feast should be clouded. I see Thee in the desert feeding\r\na multitude with bread just to relieve a temporary want AH, all the\r\ntime, Thou wert bearing a mighty grief, unshared, unspoken. Men ask for a rainbow in the cloud; but I would ask more from Thee. I would\r\nbe, in my cloud, myself a rainbow-a minister to others' joy. My\r\npatience win be perfect when it can\r\nwork in the vineyard. --George Matheson.\r\nWhen all our hopes are gone,\r\n'Tis well our hands must keep toiling on For others' sake:\r\nFor strength to bear is found in duty done; And he is best indeed who learns to make The joy of others cure his own heartache.",1783499793990]