Comments on: One Word at a Time Blog Carnival – Patience

By: Sandra King

Sandra King — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:29:06 +0000

Ouch.

Nuff said.

By: jasonS

jasonS — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:40:08 +0000

If you had any doubt you were alone, doubt no longer. We’re all with you. I think though that it only looks like we have patience with other people, but our character is always revealed under pressure. Lord, help us develop in this area!

By: Kevin_Martineau

Kevin_Martineau — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:40:12 +0000

Yep! I totally hear you on this one …

By: M. Louise Gallagher

M. Louise Gallagher — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:46:48 +0000

I hear you too.

I have learned that my lack of patience with those I love always expresses itself in ways that reflect the 'lesser' me.

When I live up to my higher good, my patience reflects my love of all.

And that's always my goal — which I am patiently, quietly and lovingly working to express every day.

Be patient with myself and I become patience with my world — thanks for your honesty. It is a gift.

Louise

By: Maureen

Maureen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:51:17 +0000

The first step is always recognizing what you'd like to change. Then, you have to go slowly, very slowly. But even before that, something more fundamental has to occur. That something is related best in "Sacred Thresholds", in which the author Paula D'Arcy relates a conversation with Richard Rohr, who tells her: "Don't push the river . . . Don't get ahead of your soul. The goal isn't to get somewhere. The goal isn't about forcing something to happen. The goal is to be in harmony with the gifts that are already given. The goal is to fall in love with your life."

And Joyce Rupp offers this beautiful prayer: ". . . teach me how to lovingly welcome / the parts of myself that I do not want. / Draw me to your heart of mercy / as I learn from what I tend to reject. / Help me to change what I can / and to accept the sum of who I am. . . ."

He doesn't reject us because we are impatient.

Namaste.

By: Glynn

Glynn — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:34:27 +0000

Patience ran out on all of us the day our first child was born.

By: nAncY

nAncY — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:55:00 +0000

yep…i hear ya.

By: @katdish

@katdish — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:49:16 +0000

I have no idea what you're talking about…

(If only that were true.)

By: Bridget

Bridget — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:49:38 +0000

Peter, a few posts today have talked about this very thing. How we have the LEAST patience with those we profess to love the MOST! I know it is true for me, and I wish (and pray) that it were different.

You aren't alone in this area for sure!