Wait.
This is not something that we always like to hear. Sometimes there is nothing more that we crave than to get what we want, to get what we are working for, and to get it right now. Sometimes all we want is to receive the instant gratification. This makes it easy to forget that all we can do now is wait.
Wait.
With patience comes healing. This can be the healing of a hurting heart, of what feels like a broken soul, or the healing of a scar, either a physical or emotional one. One’s arm usually does not magically heal after it has been broken just as one’s heart usually cannot automatically become restored after a feeling of it being shattered into a million pieces. There are times when we try to rush the healing, automatically claiming that we’re “good now,” ignoring the pain that we feel instead of just waiting. Waiting and understanding that there are some things, like healing, that simply do not happen overnight.
I say this from experience.
Wait.
In many instances, it will take time before we can fully reap what we’ve sewn. It takes time before the hard works pay off. As someone sits in a classroom, they may not see the point in being there. It is after receiving the diplomas and reaching the level of comfort and success that they have spent their life fighting for that said person realizes those hours sitting in the classroom weren’t absolutely pointless. They lead to something greater.
Wait.
And wait patiently as you put work and effort in the things that you do.
You’d be surprised at how far that can take you.
This week I wanted to write about patience, a virtue that I feel is so important. When people rush things, they are usually not as good as they can be. So I wanted to use this piece as way to remind others to have patience and to just wait. Whether we like it or not, sometimes that is the only thing we can do, and sometimes it’s the only thing left to do. In Every difficult situation that I have ever gotten out of, I managed to get through it with faith, but also patience.
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