Your best friend said something that pissed you off. That new CD you ordered isn't in yet. You could do you homework now, and play later; You could do your homework later, and worry about it all weekend. You have a kidney stone and it just hurts, but the doctor won't see you for two weeks. You could cheat now and pay the consequences later, or sacrifice the instant gratification and.... wait.
One of the best things we can learn in this world is patience. Really, when you think about it, it applies to everything. Road rage, pain, sin, outbursts, whining. A lot of the junk that we deal with in life could easily be handled with one simple virtue: patience. But it isn't so simple is it? Why is it so hard to be patient? We don't like to wait, for anything.
What would the world look like if when we were quick to get angry, we could just wait a day or two before saying anything? What would the world look like if we could just be patient and sit through things, that even though we didn't want to do them, we knew it was for the best? What would the world look like if we could be patient with each other? What would the world look like if we could put our own desires aside, waiting to serve ourselves, and take care of everything else?
I know how hard patience can be. Sometimes it can seem impossible. But the more and more I live, I am certain that if we could just learn to hold on, sit tight, be patient, and wait, that our world would be dramatically different. I believe that patience, in its difficulty, is the answer to a lot issues that we all have in the world. So let's work on it, but not by ourselves, lets do this together. So lets work on it, but not by ourselves, let's do this together.
