Patience: A Pep Talk April 26, 2026 — Fourth Sunday of Easter Rev. Anne Jernberg Scalfaro (she/her) This sermon reminds us how patience is an act of love. "this is where the spiritual practice of patience comes into play, because even as we are acting to change things, there will still be a wait. We still live in the “not yet” of it all. Patience is about the attitude of 10 our heart in the midst of the ‘wait,’ in the midst of circumstances and situations beyond our control. Patience is how we give a productive and purposeful shape to our waiting and to our ‘not knowing’ and to our ‘feelings of being out of control’ about something." Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22 Download Manuscript