Who's the Patient One?

Was getting a bit desperate for a blip today - it's grey, cold, murky and mizzley again and trees in the murk have been done many times. Saw a good book in a charity shop entitled "Can I Recycle My Granny - and 39 other Eco-Dilemmas" so took a photograph of that, thinking that if all else failed, that would be my Saturday blip.

However, on my return home, I was greeted by John who had eventually managed to finish his 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle entitled "I Love Gardening" and here it is - it was last year's Father's Day present from our son and daughter-in-law, so at least they can now see that he has finished it. He is so patient and sits for a long time just looking for one piece - something I could never do. Keith and Karen, our friends from church, are keen dissectologists too, so I think it may soon be pulled apart and passed on to them.

I am not into jigsaw puzzles at all, and actually find them quite tedious (don't tell John I said that) but what a good thing that we don't all like the same things, or it would be a boring world. I am more of a logophile (someone who loves words) and enjoy playing word games, whereas John can lose himself in jigsaw puzzles or by doing Sudoku - but that is definitely not my forte!

So, in our case, it is true that opposites have attracted - and I guess after 45 years, we have got used to and complement each other - and very often we compliment each other too!

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13 : 4-7
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