Patience
Pause to Ponder
For July and August, instead of writing full-length blogs, I’ll be sharing short “Pause to Ponder” posts—offering you something I’ve found lovely, intriguing or inspiring to touch your heart or get you thinking. Happy summering!
“Patience is developed much like awareness. Through an acceptance of what is. Impatience is an argument with reality. The desire for something to be different from what we are experiencing in the here and now. A wish for time to speed up, tomorrow to come sooner, to relive yesterday, or to close your eyes then open them and find yourself in another place.
“Time is something that we have no control over. So patience begins with acceptance of natural rhythms.”
—Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Patience
by Mendek Rubin
I can wait . . .
Because in waiting, I learn patience.
I can wait . . .
Because in waiting, I learn strength.
I can wait . . .
Because in waiting, I learn faith.
Take a Moment Micro-Meditation
Tiny pauses to be right here, right now can have big results. Our Take a Moment series of micro-meditations—all under two minutes long—make taking mindful pauses as easy as possible. We invite you to "Take a Moment" to find the calm that is always within you.
