Thanks James, it's not easy to be tolerant and I have failed miserably many times.    Being kind requires more self-discipline than letting your emotions control your behavior.  If you knew me well, you'd know self discipline/structure is not my strong suit and certainly not  'natural' to me.  Pain and death have been pretty constant in my personal life.   Still, my life has been easy in comparison to most of the human race and I know that.

My faith life supports me, but I have to take it seriously, think about it, practice, make errors, accept forgiveness and move forward.   I'm not a fundamentalist/literalist when it comes to the bible (I honestly don't know how others do it).   I do have some favorite versus, one being John when he was old and near the end of his life.  

1 John 4:16. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

Love is not easy.