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The Power to Endure
Sometimes the change, the moving on to what's next, can't come soon enough! Why is it so difficult to be patient?
Courage, Determination, Stamina, but above all - Patience!
In your patience possess ye your souls. · Luke 21:19, (KJV)
With patience, I may yet conquer my most difficult problems. Some of my plans didn't evolve quite the way I planned them. Some battles I have fought were fruitless and harmful. Generally, it was my dependence upon my own abilities, my own thinking and my own understanding that led to the difficulty. I might not have been patient enough to listen to my inner guide, or to take the time to solicit help through prayer. With patience, I can be victorious.
With patience, I may yet endure the weightiest of difficulties. In spite of my own efforts in opposition, Spirit patiently waits to teach the lesson to be learned, then gently propels me toward the Path that goes onward and upward. The darkest of times only require from me enough patience to see the sun rise upon a new day, pregnant with new opportunities and hope. With patience, I can be strong.
With patience, I may yet be forbearing to those that understand not what they do. In the hurry of living life, I occasionally forget that others are hurrying too. There are others upon their Path, struggling, hurting, sometimes lashing out in fear - fearful because of a loss of companionship, a loss of self-esteem, a loss of health or property. If I want people to cut me some slack while things are a bit fuzzy in my life, I should expect no less than that from myself toward others. With patience, I can be kind.
With patience, I may yet learn to love properly. Not only others, but myself as well. Frustration with my missteps, discouragement that can accompany outcomes, experience hard-won through painful circumstances - all this and more, only meant to teach me lessons of love. All the turmoil I have been through should have been lesson enough, but if it isn't, that's okay. Time is with me, and awareness will come. With patience, I can know love.
With patience, I may yet learn to live with some portion of serenity. It only takes a conscious decision to quiet my mind and listen to Spirit and spiritual guidance. Unfortunately, It's voice is seldom as loud as my own thinking. It takes willingness and commitment to change how I listen if, indeed, I am to experience the serenity I deserve. Knowing that Spirit is there is the first lesson I need to understand for this new way of living. All I have to do is to stop, breathe deeply, and listen. With patience I can know peace.
With patience, I may yet learn to act at last with a spirit hitherto unknown to me. Thinking that I am absolutely right, and that people should do just what I want them to do makes me tense. What I won't admit, at times like that, is that my ego has caused the tension, not their behavior. Letting go of people, of outcomes and specific plans isn't easy at first. But, why not respond to the world from the Spirit, the side of me that makes me peaceful? With patience, I can let go.
With patience, I am empowered. With patience, I am able to endure.
Copyright 2003, Michael Rawls – Friday’s Inspiration
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Friday's Inspiration offers a broad variety of practical and inspiring topics, based on common sense and sound philosophy. Outstanding contributions by some of the best self-help authors in the world accompany this author's own thoughts in his weekly newletter about what works in his life, and what doesn't.
Written by: Michael Rawls
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