Patience
Western Culture, especially American Culture is lacking in patience. We want everything day before yesterday, and we want it delivered.
The advertising industry plays a large role in our inability to consistently practice patience. However, inherent in capitalistic economic function is a built in structure for learning patience. Patience is having control, discipline and restraint, a challenging practice for Westerners. The ability to defer immediate gratification goes a long way toward achieving our long term material dreams and goals.
One of the fruits of a strong, vital spiritual belief system is patience. Indeed, patience is a major factor in the function of enduring faith.
A spiritual discipline of practicing patience has the same benefit for our personal growth and maturation as it does in the material world; helping us to secure and sustain authentic relationships and substantive inner peace.
Inviting you this week into the practice of patience.
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” Tolstoy
“Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” Joyce Meyer
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience” R. W. Emerson
