Faith & Spirit Quote by Lexa Doig

Gratitude can be a soft flex, and Lexa Doig’s line does it with disarming economy. “Thank God” opens in a register that’s half-sincere, half-performative: the kind of phrase people use when they’re translating chaos into something socially legible. It frames whatever came before as survivable only by grace, then immediately grounds that grace in something very human and unglamorous: “an abundance of patience.”

The intent reads like a quick self-portrait. Doig isn’t praising her parents for being strict or inspirational; she’s praising their stamina. That’s a quieter, more intimate compliment, suggesting a childhood (or adolescence) marked by intensity, stubbornness, big feelings, or a refusal to be easily managed. “Abundance” matters. It implies not just patience, but extra patience, patience that had to be renewed and rationed over time. The subtext is: I was a handful, and I know it now.

As an actress, Doig’s cultural context is crucial: performers are expected to package their origin stories into neat narratives of talent and hustle. This line sidesteps that PR arc. It’s not “they believed in my dream,” it’s “they endured me,” which feels more honest and, ironically, more affectionate. It also hints at the invisible labor behind any public-facing career: emotional regulation at home, adults who didn’t treat a difficult kid as a problem to be fixed.

There’s a small moral claim baked in, too. Patience isn’t framed as saintliness; it’s framed as the infrastructure of growth. The joke, if there is one, lands on the adult speaker realizing how much she cost.