Are You Being Called to Have Patience?
How a beautiful woman and a blue heron taught me to take a breath of patience.
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“A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen
Patience is a virtue, we are taught. But we aren’t necessarily taught the virtue of patience — how to demonstrate it in our daily lives. How to immerse ourselves in the peace that is patience in all things.
It’s freeing, really. To actually learn patience.
Why, then, do all our parents and teachers tell us to be patient as kicking and screaming toddlers, but then demonstrate the very opposite in their own behaviors? They scream. Throw a baby bottle — it barrels into the sheet rock of the living room wall. They slam their fists onto the steering wheels. You may remember as a child how impatience rather frightened you, with anger not so far behind it.
