Patience: The Key to Joy

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Patience has been on my mind a lot recently, perhaps because I realise it’s a virtue I need to cultivate. I often notice how I become impatient when I am thwarted, or even just momentarily distracted, in the midst of some task I feel is important. It goes hand-hand with a tunnel vision in which I am less present and open to what is being offered in the moment....

Some verses from Rumi can shed a little more light on patience and its connection to the heart-mirror:

Patience is the key to success.
The remedy of patience will burn away the veils over your eye
and open your heart.
When the mirror of your heart becomes clear and pure,
you will behold sights beyond this world of water and earth.
You will behold both the image and the Image-Maker,
both the carpet of the spiritual dominion
and the One Who Spreads It.

To read more:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingtradition/2018/02/patience-the-key-to-joy/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Muslim&utm_content=49

I become impatient with others, and I must addresss this.

To behold the omage and the Image Maker is the goal.

[TomSlick]

1. Sorry, couldn't resist.

[guillaumeb]

2. No problem.

It describes so much of what we see.

[Tobin S.]

3. A prayer for patience.

Prayers for Patience: Help Me Love Others

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” (1 Peter 4:8)

Lord, some of Your people are hard to love. They can be moody, mean, difficult, and impossible to understand. They blame me for things I didn’t do and have expectations I can’t meet. Sometimes I wish You hadn’t put them in my life.

I need You to show me how much You love them. Reveal what You see under the surface, where they’re hurting, and tell me how to make a difference. Thank you for giving me your patience to be kind and compassionate when I don’t have my own and for loving me when I’m the one who’s difficult in someone else’s life.


Taken from: https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/prayers/10-prayers-for-patience.html

[guillaumeb]

4. Thank you.

Patience can be difficult, as you said.