In Paul's list of the characteristics of love, he tells us that love is always patient.  Let's look at that patience part.  Somewhere in the mists of my memory I recall a saying, " Too many people confuse the difference between patience and a lack of standards."  Any responses?

The question has a theistic tone.  I don't mean it to.  I don't believe in the same kind of God that most people do.  You know, the one that sits there in the great beyond and has a plan for your life...  The eternal clockmaker or the eternal meddler depending on who you prefer.  But even an atheist spiritualist like myself (atheist meaning I don't believe in a theos, or a classical God, not that I don't believe in a God beyond definition, a life force that we call God for lack of better words) sometimes wonders what to do.