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Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting. ~ Joyce Meyer
I'm not patient. Not really. I wait but I don't wait gracefully sometimes. I fidget and whine and bargain and sigh. That's not patient. The Oxford Dictionary defines it as "the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset." Sometimes I meet it, sometimes I don't.
I used to think I was a patient person. What I'm determining is that I'm patient when the goal is something that's not super-important to me or I don't think I'll really attain it. I'm patient for my dinner in a restaurant. I'm patient in a waiting room (mostly). I'm patient for retirement. Waiting for the next tick to go under 190? Yeah not so much.
I read that one of the Greek words for patience is "endurance." I see it linked with perseverance a lot. I can picture it connected with running a race that way. You have to endure, knowing it will eventually happen if you don't give up. If you give up, you forfeit the prize. And though the finish line seems light years away, it's not. If you give up, though, you'll never see it.
I'm seeing themes of what I need to work through...fear, perseverance, endurance, patience, courage. It helps sometimes to see it in front of you, I think. We can't change what we don't acknowledge, anyway.
Speak kind words to yourself. Have a good day buddies...
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