*PATIENT/*PATIENCE/+*10
The bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, pain or delay without complaint, loss of temper or irritation. (Dict)
If you are patient, you are open-hearted. If you choose not to be patient, you wish to live in accordance to your agenda, not Mine. Be at peace, relax in my spirit. Do not attempt to control. (IAM, p68)
Patience is like a tree, which takes longer to grow than grass, but sturdier. (???)
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Patience is a virtue.
Prayer and Patience - The patience of prayer means that we must often sit for long periods of time and wait for the Lord to speak; it is waiting in anticipation and expectation; it is letting God be God and not trying to fashion him into our own image. Prayer demands patience because it involves our getting in touch with our deepest self where God meets us. We cannot be closer to God than we are to our true selves, to others, and to the world around us. But time can not be our master. We need to what we can do at the moment and not worry about whatever remains undone. Patience requires prayer because it is a gift and a virtue that we cannot earn on our own. (Sept/Oct '96 SRC Newsletter, reprinted from Living Prayer)