Outside the Camp

This month the Spir­i­tual qual­ity that we will con­sider is patience. The Greek word for patience is makrothymia and it lit­er­ally means “long­ness of spirit”. This qual­ity encom­passes being slow to anger and pur­pose­ful endurance and for­bear­ance while suf­fer­ing. A per­son who is patient can be con­sid­ered as being stead­fast — reli­able, faith­ful, …