Patience is focused on a particular moment in time. And detached from chronology altogether.
Some get along with patience. Others find her unbearable. Patience may slip in and out of the crevices of life. The intermittent tease that cannot be fully embraced. The house fly prancing around in plain sight. Chap stick and hand lotion. One day patience is lowering heart rate. Only to wreak havoc the next. As she vanishes into thin air without a trace.
Patience is aware that she cannot go it alone. So she cuddles up to silence for support. And calls upon breath for assistance. In some cases patience has relations with the hard way. She is surely a communal virtue.
Patience must remember to be patient. For she is often an acquired taste. Jeans that need several cycles of wash to feel right. The seed that requires a constant gardener. Patience is a discipline. Not to be confused with a goal.
Patience has witnessed many downfalls while sitting on the bench. The business deal goes south with misguided negotiation. A short cut betrays its description. The hopeless romantic squeezes out interest with wild ambitions. Patience yearns to lend a hand. But is often cast aside as inconsequential.
Patience will always have a wrestling partner in this world of flesh and emotion. For she often confronts the persistent sways of heart and head. And a fickle body. Yet patience continues to fight the good fight. Enduring the most dire of circumstances. As a reminder of what she has to offer a restless soul. Amen.
Some get along with patience. Others find her unbearable. Patience may slip in and out of the crevices of life. The intermittent tease that cannot be fully embraced. The house fly prancing around in plain sight. Chap stick and hand lotion. One day patience is lowering heart rate. Only to wreak havoc the next. As she vanishes into thin air without a trace.
Patience is aware that she cannot go it alone. So she cuddles up to silence for support. And calls upon breath for assistance. In some cases patience has relations with the hard way. She is surely a communal virtue.
Patience must remember to be patient. For she is often an acquired taste. Jeans that need several cycles of wash to feel right. The seed that requires a constant gardener. Patience is a discipline. Not to be confused with a goal.
Patience has witnessed many downfalls while sitting on the bench. The business deal goes south with misguided negotiation. A short cut betrays its description. The hopeless romantic squeezes out interest with wild ambitions. Patience yearns to lend a hand. But is often cast aside as inconsequential.
Patience will always have a wrestling partner in this world of flesh and emotion. For she often confronts the persistent sways of heart and head. And a fickle body. Yet patience continues to fight the good fight. Enduring the most dire of circumstances. As a reminder of what she has to offer a restless soul. Amen.