Patience : The Hardest Lesson
Having patience is the hardest thing when you really want something and cannot imagine a single moment without that thing that you want to have so desperately. The thing is though, if you do not have patience then you just may give up right before that thing that you desire comes knocking at your door.
They have a saying in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous and that is “Don’t quit before the miracle happens”, yet so many of us do just that, we give up before that thing comes to us and we achieve the happiness that we have long sought after when we were so very close to getting that thing that makes us happy.
Patience is so very hard when you have waited so long for something to happen. I get it.
Faith is ultimately the key to having patience, the two truly do go together and one without the other makes the whole thing hard to do, if not impossible because as we know, faith makes it all possible and part of having faith is also having patience and waiting on God to do his magic and make it happen for you.
There is another element however and that third piece to this complex puzzle is ACTION.
Action is the cure all, or as Tony Robbins says, “massive action is the cure all” and that is so true, but it all starts with patience. Patience is a virtue as they say and that it most certainly is.
Patience is what helps us to keep going when things are hard and we just want to give up on life. Patience is the key to getting things that one desires, but many cannot have patience as to wait for something important to them is just too painful, they feel that they need to have that person or thing, that difficult situation be resolved, and so on.
Patience is a requirement for success. Patience is a virtue goes the saying and it is absolutely true. Patience is something that we all need in our lives and it is the thing that will give us the most peace of mind, on the other hand, the opposite of peace of mind is having no patience, when we have no patience then that is when frustration and pain creep in.
A patient heart is a grateful heart. When we are patient then we are grateful for what we have and where we are at in our lives. Of course, patience is not enough or the end. We must take action if we wish to get the things in our lives that create the happiness that we so desire in our lives.
I have talked about the concept of action in other writings and it is something that I am quite passionate about. I am a firm believer in the idea of taking specific actions to achieve specific results and patience is the thing that makes that all possible. We must use patience and action together if we want things in our lives.
Just like faith without works is dead, the same can be said about patience. Action is the first step. Then we must have patience that God or the universe will give us the results that we want from the actions that we take. The two absolutely do go together and one without the other is useless, we must take the action and then wait on the powers that be to produce the results and the way to do that is through patience.
This is not an easy thing to do. Being patient is hard work. It requires us to believe that something will happen even when we do not see the results right away and this is for sure not easy. Many humans are inpatient, we want what we want when we want it and when we do not get it then we get antsy, it is a normal part of the human existance.
Patience is a gift though. When we are able to be patient then we are happier and more at peace. When we wait on things to happen after we take certain actions without getting depressed or frustrated, then good things happen in our lives.
As the old saying goes, good things come to those who wait.
