In board meetings and hallway conversations, I raised my eyebrows in a disapproving manner. I sighed with impatience. Fortunately, the next few years I had a number of enlightening encounters with mature and godly people, whom I respected and wanted to imitate. They had experienced my unreasonable demands. Each one told me something about my expectations and the limitations of the people I serve.
Unreasonable time demands .
Our board meeting had just finished, and several of us were making casual conversation. I have a project due and have worked sixty hours the last four days. We prayed for him, but as I drove home I remembered that I had been angry with him that evening because he had not completed an assignment from the previous meeting. It had not occurred to me that his time was not his own. Unreasonable performance demands .