It takes patience to do things properly and patience is required in the waiting for something good to grow. It's like gardening. It takes time for a tiny seedling to grow and show it's first shoots and like that it takes time to cultivate a habit and behaviour.
So it is for a relationship with a child(old or young) and developing his habits - it does not just take lots of love and care but PATIENCE too.
I have always thought I had lots of it, but it is insufficient it seems.“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience.” And you need perseverence too. Hard to practise in this fast moving world, when we have so little time.
To grow and refill patience, be present in the here and now, or as May Sarton suggests consider gardening - “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
Sometimes less is more.
Great thought about being still and allowing the mud to settle.
ReplyDeleteI love this blog ... I am sort of patient person too but don't get near me when I get impatient.. ;)
ReplyDeleteI love the thought of just being still and letting thing pass, but sometimes things or events happen that are beyond our power and we have to keep moving.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post, I totally adored it!
love the quotes. let the mud settle. Me too...patience is important and I have to sometimes work on being patient.
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