the post on – Patience. :)

Patience (pey-shuhns)
-noun
1. Ability to endure provocation, annoyance, misfortune or pain with calm and strength
2. Ability to tolerate delay
3. Quiet, steady perseverance, even tempered care, diligence

- above meaning for ‘Patience’ is cited from dictionary.com, #1-#3 only.

The word ‘Patience’ has been hovering in my head for the past whole week, so much that even Pst Phil talks about it during the short sharing on Sat @Expo. Indeed, Patience is like what Pst Phil share, the ability to wait with a great attitude under immerse pressure.

There are many things in life we plan to do, want to do, have to do and ought to do. Some are urgent, some are important, others are not so important and the rest are not important. Prioritise them, so that you won’t be caught with a short fuse, blowing up easily.
[Note: some things can be easily achievable win a short period of time while some may take longer time to happen, so all in all - Patience!]

I figured that having Patience will help me with both things:
1. To take a step back to look at the same situation with a different perspective, so that I can or might need to take a different approach to it.
2. To decide if what I’m going for is all worth it to continue the waiting.

“… and the violent shall take it by force.”
ya, right. True to a certain extend BUT not suitable for every situation. Not everything in life is about being violent and to take it by force or is it all rush, rush, rushing to get it done and over in the shortest period of time. Ask yourself, Why are you pressing hard on time? The hardest thing to rush, are especially the things of the heart.

Our mind spins fast and we think fast. The good and the bad, positive and negative stuff floods our mind like a wave and often we caught ourselves being temperamental over the issues our heart has no control over. That’s bcos our heart is SLOW. Like Pst always say, “When we worship God, we ought to wait on the Lord”. As true as what is said in the spiritual, it is the same for the natural… WAIT.

Wait for the heart to ‘download’ what the mind is thinking. Allow the heart to connect emotions and feelings into the situation. After which, allow some MORE time for a message to send back to the mind to register, so that an action can be cash out. This process with what I call, PATIENCE, bcos you won’t know how long it will take. Just like setting up system a program, if somewhere something goes wrong, you got to restart and try over again.

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["Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count" - Michelle Amand]
With that… I came up with my own, it is not a matter of the waiting but making the waiting count.

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