Love is patient…
I started
digging for what I wanted to share. A quote. A song. An image. I had already
grabbed several books of the shelves and was combing through them for the
perfect pretty turn of phrase, when it hit me.
Slow down!
Love is patient…
Love will
still be love tomorrow. Love doesn’t need to be whipped up & served on
whim.
Love is patient, love is kind…
And it’s ok
to be patient with myself, to be kind to myself, to step away from silly
manufactured emergencies in which it is monumentally imperative I POST
SOMETHING RIGHT NOW!
We don’t
have to write down the days.
We don’t
have to capture every thought in a jar so we can stare at it when we want.
We just have
to live them.
To love in
them.
To be in
them.
To be
patient enough to see the wonder and the magic and the joy in extraordinarily
ordinary days, and to savor those moments.
Documentation
be damned.
This morning
I woke up and headed to a Centering Prayer workshop with a friend. Centering
prayer is all about being present – not doing, not even listening or
discerning, simply being. It’s a patience that believes you don’t have to figure
everything out right now, you don’t have to be in control. It’s a kindness that
believes it’s ok for you to rest, to abide, to do absolutely nothing but BE.
Love is
patient.
Love is
kind.
Go and do
likewise.
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