This week, Rev. Nicole Unice helps us look honestly at where we really are on the journey of love as she unpacks one short but searching line from 1 Corinthians 13: “Love is patient… it is not easily angered.” Nicole shows that this passage isn’t just wedding poetry—it’s a picture of deep spiritual transformation. Together, we explore a simple framework for locating our own hearts (asleep, resistant, open, or surrendered), then dive into what patience actually requires: calm endurance, perseverance, emotional self-control, and a long-term focus. With humor and real-life stories—from traffic jams to coffee drive-thrus—she reframes anger as a “check engine light” for the soul, not a feeling to deny or a license to explode. You’ll learn five root causes of anger (hurt, pride, frustration and control, fear and insecurity, and holy indignation), and how each irritation or provocation can become training ground with the Holy Spirit as your guide. More than a call to “try harder,” this message invites you to let Jesus’ own unprovoked, patient love reshape how you respond to the people and pressures in front of you today. May we become people whose patience and holy restraint make the love of Jesus believable in an easily provoked world.
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