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When in 1995 my friend Amy Young moved to Chengdu, China, to teach English as a “Great Commission” cross-cultural worker, she wasn’t prepared for the proliferation in her new home of what she calls a “free-range animal.” On her first night in this new city, the head of her English department said, “Please mind the doors because there are many mice.” How true those words proved to be: mice nibbling the flowers next to her bed; mice running over her face as she slept; mice that she finally, with a frying pan, had to put out of their misery when they got caught in the sticky-paper trap.

When I first surrendered my life to Jesus, a friend told me to never pray for patience—or God would give me more opportunities to practice patience! I heeded her warning, but quickly learned that patience is as necessary as breathing.