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endurance & encouragement

Especially during the last 2 1/2 years (can it be that long!?) with Don gone from the house for 17 hrs each week-day and studying all the time on the weekends, these verses were a real encouragement to me.
"May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 15:5-6

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