Patience...

I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, I would run to nearby room with a window when I first heard thunder, sit on the floor, and wait to catch a giant lightning bolt shoot across the sky (don’t worry.  I kept my distance.  Are you kidding me?  The newscasters constantly told me not to stand next to the window cause I would get struck.  There was no way I’d stand next to it!).  Anyway, I’d wait, and wait, and wait for the perfect lightning bolt to catch me by surprise and amaze me with it’s wonder.

CRASH!



“Woah…”

It took a lot of Patience at that age to do such a thing.  A lot of Patience.  And yet today, when the internet is taking a bit longer to load or my phone is acting up, I can’t wait a second more for it to start working again!  :)

What’s with that?!  Where did I learn this?!  How did we get so impatient?  At one point in our lives, we waited all the live long day to catch a shooting star streak across the sky.  And when we saw one, even the most amazing shooting star of all time, we had to wait just a bit longer after that to see if we could catch an even more amazing shooting star—at least I was that way—because we knew something bigger and better would come our way.

I guess let this be a lesson to us.  Maybe we should consider having Patience in our unbelievably fast paced, instant gratification society.  Who knows what that might bring.  Perhaps something BIGGER and better.  Yeah!  There’s gotta be something more worthy on the horizon when we have Patience.

Patience might take awhile, but it’s gonna be worthwhile.  :)