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Forgiveness and tolerance

Patience is a virtue. After braving through the colds and the unfavourables, I have learned silence from talkative, tolerant from intolerant, and kindness from unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers. I realize very well that in the  practice of tolerance, my enemy is the best teacher. However, I am still having a finite limit. I am not God The Almighty. I try to begin with a clean sheet and I try to zip my lip. Despite all the effort done, I still err and I still need to make a great effort to forgive. I am not perfect. I am learning to find peace within myself so that I can live peacefully with others. I have to accept others trying to put the burden on me as I believe in the proverb saying "Bend and you will be straight".  St Paul said "I am always doing things I do not want to do".  It really reflects my present situation exactly. God is putting me on trials. I just wish that I can be reborn after all these trials. In the real situation, I t