Patience is a virtue.
So I've heard.
I do believe it, but not so much when I most need to experience it. These days of growth are challenging. Mostly I enjoy them. Every now and then I am brainwashed by my thoughts to be under the impression that nothing has changed. How ridiculous. In the midst of the green flourishing of plants, and the wild blooming of flowers, my rational mind dares to declare that nothing is changing. It's all old.
Old thinking, old patterns, old ways of being in the world. I am not under the jurisdiction of all things old. My perception can easily change. My wish for things to change can be realized in this moment. Because things are changing--and for the better, always.
Patience was handed to me today in these two things I heard today from a person who fully recovered from a cancer coma. She was naming things that are truly important in life.
"Love, not fear, keeps you safe. All challenges are gifts."
--Anita Moorjani
