Love is patient...

If you turn to page 252 of your Merriam-Webster’s Pocket Dictionary, you’ll see that ‘patient’ is also defined as ‘one under medical care.’

Maybe it isn’t so ironic that it’s this way. Maybe I should also study the etymology of the word, but right now, I think I can understand perfectly what and just how much this virtue means to me (and probably the rest of the world.)

I really can’t stand it when worries and fears catch me off guard. Ha, maybe when I think I’m off the patience thing no one notices… but nope, there goes negativity inviting itself to join the party. I find it appropriate to blame Mother Nature’s monthly gift for the instability and all, but I know this is something worth living through every single day… not Mother Nature’s gift in particular, but whatever situation it is that require you and me to keep growing and just keep beholding this beautiful virtue.

Life is not one big leap of faith, let me just tell you… and I know you can tell me that, too. Rather it is a series of many leaps of faith. With that said, these leaps take great consideration and patience of which cliffs are worth diving from.

I then suppose that it is more than safe to conclude that patient means more than just “bearings pains or trials without complaint” it is being trusted and thrusted into the hands and under the care of our Healer… By being patients, we become treated of our fears, anxieties, worries, and troubles. Take my word for it.

Patience turns all those things into what makes us love life instead. What we used to fear would then become something that will inspire us and make us braver. This slow and steady process of waiting for things to naturally take their place becomes the very rush itself. It’s what makes everything worthwhile.

Besides, if love is patient… it should be no question that to have love and to love, I also must have patience and be patient. I think this sentence alone summarizes this entry, if not my (and your) existence.

If there’s anything I’m certain of, it is that love never lessens, it only inspires, teaches, empties out the bad to fill in the good, and most of all, it gives us strength to know and believe that anything is indeed possible, and that's the strength that can only come from Love, Himself -- the power that does not disappoint our hopes.

If you ever have to ask again why need to be patient… just know that Love is patient, and you are Love’s favorite mirror.

:)