Passion Party #541 - Patience

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry.  We shall get there some day." - A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

 

Patience is a lost art.

To stop and wait while life swirls around you

trusting that  something hidden here will be revealed,

this is the gift that patience brings.

 

Patience is like water:

It takes the shape that you give it

and in the end, if set free, it will always go where it wants to go

and nothing can stop it.

In time, it can find a way around most any obstacle.

In time, it can create something as incredible as the Grand Canyon.

 

I think back to the summer of 1972, when my friend Rick and I rented a cabin on the

Wyalusing River, where for four weeks we did nothing much

but watch the river flow by.

Always there, but in every moment

always different.

 

Like putting a bird feeder in your back yard - 

you put it up, and put the food in,

and then you can do nothing but wait.

Patience brings the gift of the birds

Patience is the gift.