Patient Urgency: The Pace of the Fruitful Life

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread,      but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty. A faithful man will abound with blessings,      but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished. (Proverbs 28:19–20)Patient urgency.At first blush, those two words don’t seem to fit well together. Patient captures the ability to suffer long, to be steady and consistent, to have a settled stability, to be able to